[Electronics-talk] getting your drinks at fastfood places

Wed Jul 1 04:43:27 UTC 2015

It makes sense for the reason I stated earlier on list. Congressmen and 
the Health Care Act is totally unrelated though, unless it's because 
they already have better health insurance.

On 06/30/2015 10:54 PM, cheez via Electronics-talk wrote:
> 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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> Cc: "Pamela Dominguez" <geodom at optonline.net>
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> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] getting your drinks at fastfood places
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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
>> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
>> Cc: Brent Harding
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] getting your drinks at fastfood places
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Freeman via Electronics-talk"
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>> To: "'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'"
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>> Cc: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 6:40 PM
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> 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
>>> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
>>> Cc: Shannon Cook
>>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] getting your drinks at fastfood places
>>>
>>> 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
>>> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> 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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