[Electronics-Talk] dish washers and labeling them

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hi all,

What dish models are somewhat accessible? We have one that is flat paneled; I live with sighted people and I’ve never started it.
I guess the only way to make a dish washer semi accessible is to label it with loc dots or something; I say semi accessible because we cannot see what cycle its on or other things on the panel. 

We have a medium sized Maytag black dish washer. 

I have low vision and use that to determine what the dish washer is doing to some extent.
Most dish washers have lights on them. Different lights mean different things. With low vision, I can only see them very close up. It has a small light for completing the dish washer cycle. 
My job is often unloading the dish washer so I look for that little one light to indicate the cycle is done. Two lights would mean its still on the steam dry cycle. There is no  way to listen for it since the drying  cycle is quiet.

What do you do about using dish washers? Do you pick one with a flat panel and just label it?
Did you buy a dish washer which beeps when it finishes running or something like that?

Gone are the days with buttons and knobs. When I was real young, we owned a dish washer with actual buttons and I think a knob or two. That was maybe 25 years ago! I’m a young adult still; but things have changed.
Many of them have touch screens now adays which is not accessible.
We need a panel with stable buttons that stay the same in order for labeling to make sense.



I have a feeling our dish washer will break in a year or two. When we bbuy a new one, I hope it will be accessible or at least something that can be labeled to make it semi accessible.

Thanks.

Ashley