[nabs-l] Questions About Accessing/Watching Television

Mon Apr 14 13:32:29 UTC 2014

I myself am totally unable to see anything, and I find the netflix app 
extremely accessable.  What do others outtheir find unaccessable about it? 
as for the netflix website, it is a pain in the bum to navigate.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Antonio Guimaraes
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 8:50 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Questions About Accessing/Watching Television

Many shows are available on Netflix and you mitt only need a membership for 
that.

The IOS app is pretty inaccessible for NetFlix, bt if one will sit down to a 
TV, why not bring it up on a browser instead.

Antonio

On Apr 13, 2014, at 5:57 PM, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is a great question, and one I've been wondering about myself
> since my roommates last semester would regularly watch shows like Once
> Upon a Time, Dr. Who, and Sherlock together on their computers.  I
> have a few shows I'd like to start watching (primarily the Big Bang
> Theory), and it would be nice if I could access them on my phone or
> Android tablet with an app, since I know the Netflix app and web site
> can be cumbersome for jaws to handle.  My family has Time Warner Are
> there any apps for TWC that are similar to the ones offered by
> Comcast?
>
> On 4/13/14, ichoosechrist2 at gmail.com <ichoosechrist2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anjelinac
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Apr 12, 2014, at 11:03 AM, <frandi.galindo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Good morning keri
>>> There is an app for the iPhone called whats on wich was created by
>>> comcast. With this app you are able to look at the tv guide for any
>>> indevidual channel comcast offers, change your channel with the tap of a
>>> button, set reminders for your favorite shows, and many other things. 
>>> As
>>> for the on demand thing, there is another app by comcast called tv go.
>>> You can watch movies, tv shows, and many other things.  Unfortunately 
>>> you
>>> must have the network on your package that your show has.  For example, 
>>> if
>>> you wanted to watch Sex and the City, you would have to have
>>> HPO, and if you wanted to watch American idol, you would have to have 
>>> fox.
>>> You must have an account with comcast, and an online ID and password 
>>> from
>>> them.Both of these apps I find to be completely accessible.  There are
>>> other tv guide apps out their, but they are not as good.  Some shows are
>>> discriptive like CSI and criminal minds.  Unfortunatly, I am not sure 
>>> how
>>> to activate such features.  Each telivision is different.  Hope this
>>> helps.
>>> -----Original Message----- From: Kerri Kosten
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 8:14 AM
>>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>>> Subject: [nabs-l] Questions About Accessing/Watching Television
>>>
>>> Hi All:
>>>
>>> When I was younger, (many years ago) I used to watch TV all the time.
>>> I loved and primarily watched shows on channels such as ABC Family,
>>> MTV, and the CW (formerly the WB) so they had a lot of talking in them
>>> so I could follow along with what was going on pretty well just by
>>> listening to the context clues.
>>> I would like to get back into watching television.
>>> First, are popular television shows described? Could I go to a certain
>>> setting or something on my TV and access an audio described version of
>>> the shows?
>>> For those of you who love and regularly watch TV, do you just listen
>>> and try to use context clues to figure out what is going on or how do
>>> you keep yourself interested in the show when there is usually so much
>>> action and shows are very visual?
>>> Also, being that I likely won't be home when the shows I want to watch
>>> air, is there any way to access on demand through Exfinity/Comcast (my
>>> cable provider)? I know sighted people can access on demand through
>>> the menus on the remote control but of course neither my remote nor
>>> Television have speech so I can't access the menus or anything like
>>> that. For those of you who watch tv regularly, how do you get around
>>> this?
>>> Is there an app I could download on the Iphone or something to maybe
>>> somehow control my TV using the Iphone to access the on demand menus?
>>> I know these questions may sound weird, but I haven't really watched
>>> TV in so long the times have sort of changed. Television seems to be a
>>> huge thing for sighted people and I'd like to get back into watching
>>> popular TV shows again. I know I can access TV listings through NFB
>>> Newsline.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kerri
>>>
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>>> I don't like TV shows you there that are described. I find that the
>>> descriptions drown out the regular audio talking.
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