[Electronics-talk] [EXTERNAL] Re: getting your drinks at fastfood places

[Baracco, Andrew W]

This shows where the ADA has gotten us.

Andy


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Behalf Of Gerald Levy via Electronics-talk
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 3:22 AM
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
Cc: Gerald Levy
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Electronics-talk] getting your drinks at
fastfood places


Unfortunately, these devices seem to be the way of the future, and blind
consumers will be left further and further behind, as the blind advocacy
groups continue to sit on their fat butts and do little or nothing to
aggressively address this problem.  Besides touchscreen drink machines
in fast food restaurants, blind consumers now also have to contend with
inaccessible laundry card vending machines in laundrimats, fare card
machines in subway stations  and self-service check-out scanners in
stores like CVS.

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Barbour via Electronics-talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "Drew Hunthausen via Electronics-talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] getting your drinks at fastfood places


> 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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