[gui-talk] universal design of appliances

[Jen]

Mike, this is an excelllent idea! The same should go for ovens, stoves,
water pumps and so on.

Doug, I empathize with your humidifier predicament - this is exactly why I'm
afraid of humidifiers and other inaccessible appliances. What if I press the
wrong button, it doesn't stop and I can't stop it?

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Subject: [gui-talk] universal design of appliances

I was setting up one of my humidifiers last night, and it occured to me
adding universal design to appliances such as humidifiers, window air
conditioners and other similar devices could probably be done quite easily
if manufacturers were willing to do it. I'm not sure if manufacturers have
just never thought about this or if they just don't think it's worth the
effort. For example, to add voice output to the humidifier I mentioned, you
would not even need to add a full text-to-speech engine, just add recorded
phrases, and play them as appropriate, in this case, phrases such as "warm
mist setting," "cool mist setting," "humidity set at 45 percent," "mist set
at medium," etc. With the micro-controlers that are available, I would think
this would be fairly easy to add, wondder if it will ever happen.

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