[Electronics-talk] An Accessible Treadmill

[Sarah Clark]

Hello,

I posted a few days ago asking about accessible treadmills, and I just wanted to let everyone know that we found a good one that is very accessible. It is the LifeSpan TR 1200i. Its a folding model that sells at most places for $1000. All of the buttons on it are real buttons, that are large and well spaced/arranged, so it is very easy to quickly hit the button you want. It also has buttons on the side rails for quicker access to increasing/decreasing speed and incline while in use. 
We researched for quite some time to find a good quality treadmill from a quality company with good customer service (we found that almost all of the companies in this industry have horrible customer service). 

Though it is a folding model, folding it up is not automatic. You have to lift it up yourself (instead of pressing a button to have it auto lift). But it clicks into place when you have lifted it to the proper height. And when you want to lower it, you only have to start lowering it an inch or 2 manually, and then it lowers itself the rest of the way.

I am totally impressed by this machine, and particularly the buttons. We looked at a lot of treadmills, and all of the other ones we saw, including the other 2 LifeSpan folding models we looked at -- the 2000 and the 3000, either had totally flat buttons that were undetectable like a microwave panel, or blended into the panel so much it was hard to quickly find and distinguish them from one another. But these buttons are large, full buttons that are very easy to recognize and tell apart. 

Hope this helps someone,

Sarah