[Electronics-Talk] Appliance accessibility

[cheez]

I don't think we'll be bringing back the good old days.  Everything changes. 
We all just have to adapt.

Vince

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From: "Gerald Levy via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
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>
> I have an even better idea.  Forget all this bluetooth and Internet 
> nonsense.  Why not make appliances with tactile buttons and switches like 
> in the good old days?  What a concept!!  The problem is that the design 
> and manufacture of appliances has largely been taken over by the Chinese 
> who are more interested in making cheap products than in making them 
> universally accessible.  And now that GE has agreed to sell its appliance 
> business to the Chinese electronics and appliance giant, Haier,appliance 
> accessibility is likely to get even worse.
>
> Gerald
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: cheez via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 12:06 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
> Cc: cheez
> 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
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> To: "'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'"
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> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 8:35 AM
> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] Appliance accessibility
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>
>> 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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