[Electronics-Talk] Cable accessibility

[Jude DaShiell]

Just like those banks putting braille on all of those a.t.m. keyboards 
and leaving the other half of accessibility needs alone.

On Mon, 15 Feb 2016, Gerald Levy via Electronics-Talk wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:31:56
> From: Gerald Levy via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
>     <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Gerald Levy <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Cable accessibility
> 
>
> 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'
> Cc: Merv Keck
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Cable accessibility
>
> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Brent Harding <brent at hostany.net>
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Cable accessibility
>
> 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" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> To: "'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'"
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> 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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