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

[Jim Barbour]

You don't have to pay as much attention to it. The correct heat, and time, just happen with the push I have a button.

Jim

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> On Nov 10, 2016, at 10:39 AM, Shannon Cook via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have never owned a rice cooker.  What makes it better than cooking rice in a pot on the stove?
> 
> Shannon Cook, MSW, CPM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 1:40 PM
> To: Gerald Levy via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] future of accessibility in appliances and devices
> 
> Those who have studied Production And Operations Management know packaging changes which is part of what making tactile buttons involves are some of the most expensive changes manufacturers make to products.
> Or at least that was the case before 3-dimensional printing came into existence.  Why it is a company with one of these printers is not yet mass producing tactile buttons for several appliance lines I don't yet know.  If I ever get one of those printers that's one thing I intend to try doing with it once enough testing gets done to verify correctly designed buttons will be produced.
> 
>> On Thu, 10 Nov 2016, Gerald Levy via Electronics-Talk wrote:
>> 
>> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:14:56
>> 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] future of accessibility in appliances and
>>    devices
>> 
>> 
>> If the appliance manufacturers can make their products accessible by
>> means of a smart phone app, then they could just as easily make them
>> more accessible by using a control panel with tactile buttons.
>> 
>> Gerald
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jim McCarthy via Electronics-Talk
>> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 9:41 AM
>> To: 'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'
>> Cc: Jim McCarthy
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] future of accessibility in appliances
>> and devices
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Sandra Streeter via Electronics-Talk
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2016 9:46 PM
>> To: electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
>> Cc: Sandra Streeter
>> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] future of accessibility in appliances and
>> devices
>> 
>> 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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