[Electronics-Talk] future of accessibility in appliances and devices

[Jim McCarthy]

Sandra,
The smart phone providing access to appliances actually might prove helpful to you given what you describe. That is if you had access to a qwerty keyboard or braille display. The majority of touch screen gestures and methods do have keyboard equivalents. I agree with Dave that smart phone access to appliances would be one more access tool and it also seems one that the appliance manufacture community might pursue.
Jim McCarthy

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All in for a range of solutions! I, for one, have had a devil of a time mastering any touch-screen device (except my microwave), because I’m a lousy auditory learner who needs both Braille and practice to master even a smartphone, and because I have some fine-motor issues that make it harder to ensure that I’m, say, double-tapping something instead of tapping once and accidentally moving my finger without knowing it, then attempting the second half of the gesture (in the new place I wasn’t aware I was in). Those of us who are still button-pushers, and don’t want to use touch screens or to talk to a device, are left out in the cold. . Smartphones would not be an option for me. Besides which, say the Internet part of the grid (but not all electronic areas) went down—getting our phones to talk to our devices so we can set them properly might be a major issue. And, I am totally in agreement that we need to be better advocates for ourselves, instead of waiting for a politician or governmental system to finally see/do something about our needs. Not all de-regulation is a bad thing.



Sandra

Not “Revelation” – tis – that waits
But our unfurnished eyes –
(Emily Dickinson)

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