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

[Kaye]

I also live in a building that only has card operated laundry machines. I 
have a friend come by every now and then to assist me, when money needs to 
be added but when she is not around the building staff has been nice about 
it. One thing I had to do once is call my friend on skype, then bring my 
Iphone to the laundry and show her the machine. She was able to walk me 
through the steps of adding the funds myself. It was probably funny to any 
passers by, but I got it done. I have been fortunate though that my machines 
do have buttons so I can do my own laundry. I am about to move to a place 
where I will have my own washer and dryer. I am thinking of renting a set, 
but I know I need to be careful that they don't send me a set that is flat 
screened.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Drew Hunthausen
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 6:53 PM
To: 'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] follow-Up to my Last Message

Gerald,
I previously lived in an apartment complex with the same type of card
operated laundry machines. What I did was have the apartment manager put
more money on my card each month when I paid my rent. Just a suggestion to
more easily get around this inconvenience.


-----Original Message-----
From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Gerald Levy
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 2:15 PM
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] follow-Up to my Last Message


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


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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


> 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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