[nfb-talk] Inaccessible appliances!

Mike Freeman k7uij at panix.com
Tue Feb 21 03:43:21 UTC 2012


Sounds like a capital idea!

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joshua Lester
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 7:21 PM
To: NFB Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Inaccessible appliances!

I thought the act had already passed!
I didn't know, that they were still working on it.
I'll resubscribe to the Braille Monitor, so I can keep up with what's going
on.
Blessings, Joshua

On 2/20/12, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
> Joshua:
>
> What planet are you living on? Why do you think the NFB is currently
working
> on getting the Home Appliance Accessibility Act introduced and passed? You
> say you thought not having accessible apliances is illegal. What statute
> makes it illegal? The ADA certainly doesn't apply since appliances are not
a
> program or service or place of public accommodation.
>
> Sometimes I think the disabled have been hornswaggled -- or have
> hornswaggled themselves -- into believing the ADA is almost as wonderful
as
> the Second Coming! 'Tain't so.
>
> Mike Freeman
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joshua Lester
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 6:20 PM
> To: NFB Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [nfb-talk] Inaccessible appliances!
>
> Hi, it's Joshua Lester.
> My microwave stopped working, a few weeks ago.
> Now, my family has this inaccessible one, that has a touch screen.
> I hate touch screens, on anything!
> I heard, that Walmart sells an accessible microwave, called the Cook
Magic.
> I went to Walmart's Website, and they have it, but the store 30 miles
> away from my hometown, doesn't have it.
> The employees have never heard of it either.
> I thought it was illegal, for companies to make inaccessible appliances!
> What's the problem?
> Why are stores still allowed to sell them?
> Something's wrong with this!
> Thanks, Joshua
>
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