[Small-Appliance-Cooking] Resolution or accessible appliances

[geodom at optonline.net]

I agree with you.  I know that there have been resolutions before about 
inaccessible appliances.  I thought they were supposed to cover all 
appliances, but maybe another one is necessary.  Pam.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Sabra Ewing via Small-Appliance-Cooking
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 7:58 PM
To: small-appliance-cooking at nfbnet.org
Cc: Sabra Ewing
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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