[Electronics-Talk] Appliance accessibility

[Annette Carr]

I wonder if Alexa could be used for this.  Isn't Alexa already being used
for home environmental control?  I'll have to do some research on this.

Annette


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To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
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Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Appliance accessibility

Why not bypass bluetooth and make appliances accessible via the Internet. 
If one can communicate with a fridge using a computer or smartphone, then
why not make it possible for one to set appliances the same way?
Now it may sound crazy, but if one doesn't have a computer or smartphone,
then they could use a landline like one can do to reset cable boxes and the
like.

Vince

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Subject: [Electronics-Talk] Appliance accessibility


> 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
>
>
>
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