[Electronics-talk] Keurig 2.0 accessibility

[Christopher Chaltain]

Touch screens are cheaper, more flexible and what customers want. It's a 
lot easier to clean a touch screen then it is a number pad with raised 
buttons for example.

On 11/09/2015 02:54 PM, Barb O'Connor via Electronics-talk wrote:
> I'm glad I have an older version.  I don't understand why everything has to go to the touch screen.  If mi present Keurig fails, I won't replace it with a touch screen version.
>
> Barb
>    ----- Original Message -----
>    From: Gerald Levy via Electronics-talk
>    To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
>    Cc: Gerald Levy
>    Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 11:16 AM
>    Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Keurig 2.0 accessibility
>
>
>
>    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.
>    --
>    Jim Shaffer
>    Pflugerville, TX
>    www.jjshaffer.net
>    www.pgramblers.com
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