[Small-Appliance-Cooking] Resolution or accessible appliances

Sabra Ewing sabra1023 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 00:51:28 UTC 2018


We find one company who is known for excluding blind people the most, and target them. Then the other companies will fall into line. I believe this is a strategy the NFB has used before.

Sabra Ewing

> On Apr 11, 2018, at 6:14 PM, Jordan Gallacher via Small-Appliance-Cooking <small-appliance-cooking at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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