[gui-talk] universal design of appliances

[Mike Arrigo]

Well, with humidifiers, the worst thing that might happen is you might set the humidistat too low and it turns off, you can tell what the mist level is by feeling the mist output, same with the cool or warm mist setting. This humidifier actually has touch controls, my girl friend put tape above the controls and I memorized the order of the buttons.
> On Dec 30, 2016, at 3:50 PM, Jen via gui-talk <gui-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> 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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> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2016 2:41 PM
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> Cc: Mike Arrigo <n0oxy at charter.net>
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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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