[Electronics-talk] getting your drinks at fastfood places

Wed Jul 1 03:54:19 UTC 2015

Now, that makes sense.  Goes right along with Congress members saying they 
wouldn't participate in the Affordable Healthcare program if they had too.

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From: "Pamela Dominguez via Electronics-talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
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> My husband worked for the federal government, and he was always being told 
> that the government didn't have to abide by the ADA.  They only had to 
> abide by section 503.  Pam.
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Brent Harding via Electronics-talk
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 8:56 PM
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> Appliances aren't but I would think those tablets at restaurants are,
> because restaurants are a such a place open to the public. I always took 
> the
> ADA to mean the Federal government, unless I'm confusing that with 508.
>
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> From: "Mike Freeman via Electronics-talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
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>> 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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>> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Shannon Cook via Electronics-talk
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 3:00 PM
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>> Cc: Shannon Cook
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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-----
>> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Kendra Schafer via Electronics-talk
>> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 5:37 PM
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>> Cc: Kendra Schafer
>> 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.
>>>>
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>>>> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>>> 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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