[Electronics-Talk] Cable accessibility

Mon Feb 15 18:28:27 UTC 2016

Will that's good. Right now, as most of this list knows, I'm trying to get a
landline phone with talking caller ID. Not only is it dificult, but they are
very costly. 

Rob Kaiser
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From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
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At least some blindness products merchants like Future Aids post simplified
product instructions on their web site so that you can read them before you
buy a particular product.

Gerald

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I can't believe accessible companies would do that until I got my talking
blood pressure machine from Maxi aides. They sent me a print instruction
manual. I called them & was told that they didn't have a Braille instruction
book.

Rob Kaiser
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That makes sense, Gerald.  Just like companies that sell products for the
blind and visually-impaired only sending printed instructions for the item.

Vince

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>
> Time Warner's idea of accessibility is to offer large-button remote 
> control units to visually impaired customers on request.  Isn't that 
> swell

> of them?
>
> Gerald
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Merv Keck via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 12:02 PM
> To: 'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'
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>
> Hi,
> I have Brighthouse. Their idea of accessibility is if you are blind 
> you can call them and they will read your bill over the phone for you. 
> Laughs!
> Seriously that is what their web site actually says under accessibility.
> That and they have wheelchair ramps at the bill paying sites.
> I gave up the DVR because their iPhone app will allow me to set up the 
> recording of a program but once that program was recorded I had no way 
> of accessing the recording on either the DVR or the iPhone. So I might 
> have
> 20
> programs on the DVR but the only way I could find which one I was 
> looking for was to start each program until I found what I was looking
for.
> Obviously in a TV series that didn't work for viewing a series in order.
> So
> I decided to save the money and get a standard box.
> I have a sixty inch HDTV but I never watch it because it is too much 
> of a pain trying to find something and I can no longer see the screen 
> as of about
> 14 months ago now anyway.
>
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> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Brent Harding via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 11:46 AM
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> Cc: Brent Harding <brent at hostany.net>
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>
> I wish Time Warner would come out with something as well. I would 
> really like to have a DVR that I can control. I'm not in a part of 
> town where Uverse is available like I was when it first came out in 
> other parts of town. I had to remember a little bit of menu options, 
> but I could schedule the recordings online back then, but that system 
> had a dedicated DVR button that only brought up previous recordings.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk" 
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> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 9:05 AM
> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] Cable accessibility
>
>
>> My husband has been calling Cablevision for years to talk about 
>> accessibility.  Within the last couple months, they've actually 
>> started to respond, and he's been talking to one of their developers 
>> about ways to improve the accessibility of their website and app.  
>> She says they will have significant improvements within this year.
>>
>> If we can use their app or website to do things like program the DVR, 
>> that would be a big improvement.  Progress is slow, but we feel like 
>> we're starting to get somewhere.  My man's consistent complaining may 
>> be paying off.
>>
>> Go thou and do likewise.
>>
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>>
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