[nfb-talk] Inaccessible appliances!

[Chris Nusbaum]

Good idea about resubscribing to the Monitor! To clarify, you 
might have been thinking about the Technology Bill of Rights, 
which the NFB was working on the past 2 years.  It got stuck in 
committee in the 111th Congressional session, and didn't get 
enough cosponsors in the 112th session.

Chris

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
To: NFB Talk Mailing List <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:21:24 -0600
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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