[Electronics-talk] microwaves

[Pamela Dominguez]

We just brailled the flat screen on the microwave.  Pam.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Serena Nickell
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 12:11 AM
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] microwaves

I use puffy paint to mark my buttons.  Emerson has one with buttons for the 
numbers but the rest of the buttons are touch screen
Serena

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> On Jan 5, 2014, at 10:56 PM, "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> 
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> How do you make your microwave accessible? Do they make ones with dials 
> where you click them into place as they used to?
> These strike me as more accessible as there is less things to press.
> I don’t think they make microwaves with buttons anymore, right?
> I had one like that in our old house, twenty years ago.
> It felt like a telephone keypad and was easy to use.
>
> All new appliances seem to have flat screens.
> If not, all are those touch pads, which mean we have to label them.
>
>
> If you label it, do you use braille? I’ve noticed there’s so many buttons. 
> I’ve just labeled the essential items. I was able to label with two 
> letters per button which is a good thing as one letter would not work 
> because it could mean several things. So, I wrote cl for clear and ck for 
> cook time.
> I heard there was one talking microwave, but I would not get it, as its 
> overpriced. I figure I can adapt an off the shelf product.
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