[New-york-news] I was watching the Oscars last night and there was a commercial on the comcast cable box for the blind

[Pam Cordes]

Disney has a few episodes of Sophia the First where the scene was explained
just before the segment.  I noticed it when my grand daughters were
watching it.  It had no effect on them or my husband who was in the room,
but I immediately picked up on it.  Unfortunately I do not think they are
doing it on all their episodes.  I will find out this week end when my
girls are here and report. It was great.  I wish they would do this for
subtitles.  It is so annoying.   Pam

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Cheryl Echevarria <
cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all:
>
>
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> Last night while watching the “Oscars” they had a commercial on TV, at
> first would couldn’t figure out what the commercial was for, they had a
> child who was blind and had the music from the “Wizard of Oz”, the little
> girl was explaining what she thought the scarecrow, cowardly lion and tin
> man may of looked like in her own mind.
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> Then the commercial revealed the new Comcast box for cable, that was for
> the legally blind.
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> I wish, Optimum or Cablevision or whatever they are calling it now in NY
> would get this.
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> We are so far behind the U.K. now getting this. They have had it there for
> years, in fact, at one of the past National Conventions, one of the
> presenters at the General Session was from England and was talking about
> these things.
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> Cheryl Echevarria, President
>
> National Federation of the Blind's Travel and Tourism Division
>
> A proud division of the
>
> NATIONAL FEDERATION *OF THE BLIND - "Live the life you want"*
>
> www.nfbtravel.org
>
> 631-236-5138
>
> cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com
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> The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the
> characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
> expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
> between blind people and our dreams. You can have the life you want;
> blindness is not what holds you back.
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> Cheryl Echevarria is also the owner of Echevarria Travel
> www.echevarriatravel.com; 631-456-5394 or
> reservations at echevarriatravel.com and  has partnered with Braille Smith.
> www.braillesmith.com for all her braille needs.  Gail Smith is the
> Secretary of the NFB of Alabama
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