[Electronics-Talk] Appliance accessibility

[Tracy Carcione]

Many years ago now, the brilliant engineer Tim Cranmer had an idea of how to
make appliances accessible.  We would get a law passed requiring
manufacturers to include a chip which would broadcast menu info to a blind
person's device of choice.  Those days, it was something like a Braille 'n
Speak.  These days, it would probably be a smart phone, with the signal via
Bluetooth.

Could some version of this idea be workable today?  It wouldn't solve the
problem of a touch screen control, as someone described for some
dishwashers, but it would help with the problem of one button controlling
different menus and submenus, like some washers I've seen.

I'm not keen on my appliances being connected to the internet, but I'm also
not happy with the struggle it can be these days to find something I can
easily use.

Tracy