<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Hi all,</div><div dir="ltr">I haven't been active on this list. I'm Blind and Hard-of-Hearing. I'm kind of overwhelmed <b> by too much email and haven't read all the mail from this group, even though I know issues have been brought up which address the reasons I joined in the first place. I'm trying to do better about this.</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b>I have a question about this bill. When I first got some mailing about it, from NFB, I went looking for the details of the bill and couldn't find them. I wrote to someone, I don't remember, whatever address at NFB that seemed most relevant, asking my questions and received no reply. These days, I don't follow up on this sort of thing because I'm just tired. But maybe someone here knows, as it is relevant to this group. What I couldn't find were any details about exactly what kind of access would be required. Without a rather detailed definition of what access would be required under this act, I think deafblind access will be ignored. Sometimes this impacts me personally, as in devices that have volume too low for me to hear clearly. Sometimes it does not. I don't even know if it would help the problems I've had with hearing aids, as my issues have more to do with them not interfacing well with my iPhone, because of the way I use my phone with speech output, which is not the way typical sighted HOH people use their phones. Anyway, that's more than I can get into here. I have not been enthusiastic about the potential of this legislation because, in my experience, people with multiple disabilities are generally overlooked. Of all the legislation that gives us theoretical rights, so much of it is never implemented or enforced, so maybe it wouldn't make a difference anyway, but I'd like to know that the access it would mandate, is really access for all. If anyone knows more about this, could you please share?</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Andre</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b> </b></div><div dir="ltr">On 29 Feb 2024, at 6:52 am, Doula Jarboe via NFB-DB <nfb-db@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br><br></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hey All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> I initially sent this to my own affiliate’s listserv. However, wanted to share it here as well. Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Warmly,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Doula<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-ligatures:none">From:</span></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"> doula.jarboe@gmail.com <doula.jarboe@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 28, 2024 7:11 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'NFB of Colorado Discussion List' <colorado-talk@nfbnet.org><br><b>Subject:</b> sharing an inaccessibility challenge<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi Everyone,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> As I mentioned, I’ve been in the hospital for about the last week and a half. I wanted to share an experience I had because of an inaccessible application. If people think I should write this up more formally for the Blog or the Monitor or some other publication, I can do so. But right now, I’m just wanting to share this experience with people who will understand because of our family and organization.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> So, most know I identify as DeafBlind. I wear hearing aids with rechargeable batteries. The charger has lovely little lights that light up when the hearing aids are charging properly. So helpful for me right? I also have an application on my phone that works with my hearing aids. Sort of. Some things work just great, some things have the button, some things you get into the section and there’s no information there.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Friday evening I moved from ICU to the regular hospital floor. One of my hearing aids was dying so I stuck it in the charger. Maybe an hour to an hour and a half later I pulled it back out to use it and was still receiving the low battery signal. So obviously not getting charged. Now I’m starting to worry because the other hearing aid is starting to die as well. Wes, my husband showed up to visit, and he’s both sighted and technology is his specialty. He finally figured out it was the charging cable that needed replacing. However, by the time he figured that out both hearing aids were completely dead. I spent a good while that night without the use of my hearing aids because I didn’t have full access to the application that could have told me pretty immediately that the hearing aid wasn’t charging. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> That was my bad experience, if we can get the web and application accessibility act passed, something like this I might be able to avoid. Thank you for listening.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Warmly,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Doula<o:p></o:p></p></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>NFB-DB mailing list</span><br><span>NFB-DB@nfbnet.org</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-db_nfbnet.org</span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFB-DB:</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-db_nfbnet.org/l.andre.zelvin%40gmail.com</span><br></div></div></body></html>