[Small-Appliance-Cooking] Resolution or accessible appliances

Jordan Gallacher jordanandseptember at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 00:14:44 UTC 2018


Totally agree, and if you want a great coffee maker, you will not be
disappointed with the Cuisinart 4 Cup model.  I have had three of them, and
the only button is the on/off switch.
Jordan

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Subject: [Small-Appliance-Cooking] Resolution or accessible appliances

I understand that this list is sponsored by the crafters division. I believe
that we need a resolution to address the large number of an accessible
appliances that are excluding blind people. If an accessible websites the
violate the ADA, some of these appliance manufacturers should be taken to
task as well. They are going above and beyond to exclude blind people by
creating an accessible touch screens that are impossible to label because
the menus change. I was trying to get a new coffee maker, and it was very
hard to find one with buttons. Smart appliances are also great, but blind
people should not be forced to use them to make up for lack of
accessibility. We are paying customers and we deserve to be able to buy
appliances that we can use. We do not deserve to get shut out of all of
these new appliances, and we do not deserve companies that go so far as to
put in their instructions manual that we should not use their products. This
is wrong because it is discriminatory, and if a blind person is using a
product, and that product actually is defective, unsafe, or has a problem,
the company can try to get out of it by saying that a blind person should
not have been using it in the first place according to their manual. I do
not know how to write a resolution or I would do it. I don't even know what
resolution would help. And we will also have to frame the resolution in such
a way that other blind people won't take away focus from it by saying that
we are entitled for wanting access to smart appliances like they did with
the Apple resolution. What do you all think? 

Sabra Ewing
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