[Electronics-talk] getting your drinks at fastfood places

Wed Jul 1 03:17:44 UTC 2015

Apartment complexes are public accommodations though, so it isn't clear 
to me that it doesn't apply.

On 06/30/2015 10:13 PM, Mike Freeman via Electronics-talk wrote:
> Commercial laundromats are. However, those in apartment complexes are not.
>
> Mike
>
>
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> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Pamela Dominguez via Electronics-talk
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 7:56 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
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> Laundrimats are places of public accommodation, and they have appliances in
> them.  Pam.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Freeman via Electronics-talk
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 7:40 PM
> To: 'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'
> Cc: Mike Freeman
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] getting your drinks at fastfood places
>
> I'm no lawyer but I rather doubt it since appliances aren't a place of
> public accommodation, a program or service offered to the public.
>
> Mike Freeman
>
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> Behalf Of Shannon Cook via Electronics-talk
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> Does the ADA cover this area?  I did not think it did, but that is why I'm
> asking.  I am not sure with the amendment.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Kendra Schafer via Electronics-talk
> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 5:37 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] getting your drinks at fastfood places
>
> Hi all!
> I don't understand why they don't follow the ADA and at the very least,
> write apps to control the machines.
> Kendra
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jun 26, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Jim Barbour via Electronics-talk
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> So, this is not a new idea.  We've talked about it both in the NFBCS
>> division and the Research and development committee.
>>
>> It's a very difficult hill to summit.
>>
>> You can either fragment the problem, and try to convince each flat
>> screen
> appliance manufacturer, appliances include these drink machines, to make
> their own app that controls their appliance.  You also meed to convince them
> to make the app accessible, and to keep the features of the app in parity
> with the features you get from using the machine without an app.
>>
>> Or, you can centralize the problem and try to get all appliance
> manufacturers to agree on a standard communications system among mobile
> devices and appliances, so that one app can be developed that uses this
> standard system and control all the appliances that use it.
>>
>> So far, there has been little traction on either front.
>>
>> Sorry to deliver bad news on a Friday afternoon, I just wanted to move
>> the conversation forward to the current state the world :)
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 03:59:57PM -0700, Drew Hunthausen via
> Electronics-talk wrote:
>>> I haven't seen one of these yet, but I wonder if there could be some
>>> kind of software or app created to allow smart phones to access the
>>> machine wirelessly, select what they want and pay for it all by the
> phone.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> On Behalf Of Brett Boyer via Electronics-talk
>>> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 3:00 PM
>>> To: 'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'
>>> Cc: Brett Boyer
>>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] getting your drinks at fastfood places
>>>
>>> Hey guys. I don't know how many of you have seen these new
>>> touch-screen drink machines.
>>>
>>> These are the machines that are completely flat screen, and have
>>> pages and pages of drinks and/or flavors to make your own combinations.
>>>
>>> They are very cool but I haven not been able to find a way for blind
>>> peple to access them independently. I am pretty pissed that I can't
>>> get up and get my own drink anymore without having a sighted person
>>> or an employee waste time by helping me scroll through pages of
>>> flavors
> just to get a drink!
>>>
>>> Anyone have any ideas about this or anything we could do to get these
>>> machines accessible?
>>>
>>> I hope this isn't off topic
>>>
>>> bb
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