[Electronics-Talk] accessible electric stoves

[Falicity Daniels]

Hello Ashley,
You can try using baking silicone matts and ask a sighted friend to cut out tactile markings for your burners. For example, you could place the corner of the matt on the corners of the stove and use the edge of the stove to line up your matt. Then when the matts are in place, you could use them as tactile guides to show you where the burner starts. I wouldn't put the matts right on the burners, but if you have them near them, it is fine because they are meant to handle heat and I have used this with my clients. I don't have a flat top stove so I don't use them, but have helped my clients with this. I hope this makes sense and can help. 

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> On Sep 8, 2025, at 6:44 PM, Ashley Bramlett via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> I am in search of how to make an electric stove accessible.
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> Stoves have flat burners now a days.
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> They have knobs to set the temperature on each burner but that needs to be
> marked for it to be usable.
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> Years ago, we had electric stoves with coils which could be easily seen by a
> low vision person and also raised so it was tactile.
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> I thought these tactile burners were more user friendly because you could
> just touch the burner when it was off and center a pot or pan on the burner.
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> What stoves, if any, are accessible now?
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> Is there a stove out there that sends messages to your smart speaker like
> Alexa to tell you temperature of the burners or says when food is boiling or
> something like that?
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> I attend a day program for people with cognitive disabilities
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> with a kitchen unit. It has an electric stove with five burners.
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> How can you make a stove accessible? Is there some sort of high contrast or
> tactile marking we can put on the stove next to the burners so I know where
> burners are?
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> What is a good method of marking the stove knobs? Years ago when I worked
> with a rehab teacher, she said high marks could be used.
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> Thanks.
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> Ashley
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