[Electronics-Talk] Appliance accessibility

Mon Feb 15 12:10:36 UTC 2016

Well, Time Warner Cable certainly has no plans to offer accessible boxes 
anytime soon.  Their customer service agents as well as their overpaid 
executives profess total ignorance about the existence of such devices.  Who 
is going to force them to offer accessible boxes, anyway ?  The FCC?  The 
blindness advocacy groups?  The local police?  LOL!  Except for Comcast, the 
other cable providers do not seem to be taking this issue very seriously. 
Why should they?

Gerald

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From: Rob Kaiser via Electronics-Talk
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Thank you for that suggestion. First & formost, it would really be great if
other cable companies would get on board with Comcast in getting new boxes.

Rob Kaiser
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When I had cable, it was with Cox.  If I experienced any trouble, the
automated system would send a signal to my box.  If the problem wasn't
solved, then a live tech would come on the line and try to fix things.  If
that fails, then a service tech was sent to my home.

Vince

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> How are you able to set the cable box by phone? I had a problem with my
> cable last week. I called Charter (a web site that is not accessible) &
> they
> like most cable companies asked me what was on the screen. When I told
> them
> I am totally blind & I cannot see the screen, they wanted to make an
> appointment for a tech to come out. There was no way to set the cable box
> by
> push buttons. Does anyone know when Comcast's audio box for the cable box
> will be ready? I have a feeling that once Comcast gets that ready & it is
> a
> feature one can get, other cable companieswill have to follow suit on
> this.
> If they don't they will lose many blind people. Of course, Comcast isn't
> availablein some areas.
>
> I also agree with your idea Gerald as to the factcompanies should return
> to
> regular buttons that we can use.
>
> Rob Kaiser
> Email;
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> Behalf Of Gerald Levy via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 10:15 AM
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> Cc: Gerald Levy <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Appliance accessibility
>
>
> 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
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> Cc: cheez
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>
> 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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> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 8:35 AM
> 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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