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

[Frida Aizenman]

I have which, in my humble opinion is a better solution. at least for now 
while a law about accessibility is passed. I don't think you have to pay 
extra and have your laundry taken to a cleaner who will do all the laundry.
Well, I used to live in a sixty apartment complex. In those days, the washer 
and Dryer were accessible, and the laundry room was near the elevator.
Therefore, I think that if I was faced with an inaccessible situation, I 
would wait by the elevator for a neighbor to come by and ask him or her to 
start the machine.
Now I live in my own house by myself, and luckily, I have a very good old 
washer and dryer. I know some of my neighbors, but the houses are separate, 
and that would be very difficult, and wouldn't be practical to do.
Am I suppose to call them during a snow storm? What if, at the last minute, 
when I need them they are not home. What if they went on vacation?
Cordially,
Frida
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Chao" <mattchao at verizon.net>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] follow-Up to my Last Message


> 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
>>
>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>e
>>>
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