[Electronics-talk] follow-Up to my Last Message

[Matthew Chao]

That's unfortunate.  The only other thing you could do is to pay 
extra and have your laundry taken to a cleaner who would do all of it 
for you.  What a nuisance.--Matt.

At 05:15 PM 1/1/2013, you wrote:

>You're lucky that you can buy your own washer/dryer.  The new Maytag 
>commercial washers and dryers in the laundry room of my apartment 
>complex are pretty much inaccessible without sighted help because 
>they have flat membrane touchpad controls that cannot be modified in 
>any way.  Plus, they now use a card-based system instead of coins to 
>activate them.  Of course, the vending machine that is used to add 
>value to the card is totally inaccessible because the display has no 
>speech output.  I even asked my building manager whether the company 
>that makes the card vending machine offered a more accessible model 
>with speech output or some other form of audible confirmation so 
>that a blind person could independently verify the amount on the 
>card.  He just laughed.  So I now always need sighted help to do my 
>laundry.  In the good old days when the machines had mechanical 
>knobs and buttons and accepted quarters, I could do the laundry myself.
>
>Gerald
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Chao" <mattchao at verizon.net>
>To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 4:52 PM
>Subject: [Electronics-talk] follow-Up to my Last Message
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>>Hi, Again, Folks.  Forgot to say that I was able to try out the 
>>washer in the store.  They were able to plug it into a standard 
>>outlet using an extension cord, so I got to see (rather hear) for 
>>myself.--Matthew Chao
>>
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