[Electronics-talk] Keurig 2.0 accessibility

[Christopher Chaltain]

This isn't so obvious to me. If everyone had this attitude then Apple 
never would have made an accessible smart phone with a touch screen 
interface. I also don't accept the implication that it's a waste of time 
to report this to Keurig. One sure way to make sure this device is never 
accessible is to never say anything to Keurig. I say, make them aware of 
the issue and let them consciously decide to make their products 
accessible or not. As obvious as it may be to us that this design isn't 
going to work for the blind, it may not be so obvious to the product 
designers at Keurig. I can't tell you how many times I pointed out to a 
programmer or a web developer that something wasn't accessible, and 
that's all it took.

On 11/09/2015 11:16 AM, Gerald Levy via Electronics-talk wrote:
>
> Obviously, they have no intention of making their products blind
> accessible or else they would have replaced the touchscreen with
> dedicated buttons to select the desired cup size.
>
> Gerald
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Jim Shaffer via Electronics-talk
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 12:02 PM
> To: electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Jim Shaffer
> Subject: [Electronics-talk] Keurig 2.0 accessibility
>
> We recently purchased a Keurig 2.0 model 200.  We subsequently returned it
> to Walmart, and got an older Keurig model 40 they still had on the
> shelf.  I
> was unable to use the unit, because you need to select a cup size using the
> touch screen.  This would have been doable, except that if you, by tapping
> the up button, exceed the maximum cup size of 10 oz, the selection wraps
> around to 4 oz.
>
> I'm sure that this has been discussed, but there are many Keurig
> messages in
> the archives, and I didn't browse them all.  I heard on another list that
> blind folks were using this unit successfully, and I wonder how?
>
> I spoke with a manager at Keurig, and he told me that he'd heard of this
> once before.  Honestly, I didn't get the feeling that Keurig is concerned
> about this, or that they plan to do anything about it.
> --
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Christopher (CJ)
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