[Electronics-Talk] Appliance accessibility

[.tina sohl]

The machine itself should tAlk. The technology exists for that7
sent from my  samsung s6 

On February 14, 2016 8:35:00 AM MST, Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>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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