Re: The growing accessibility gap: was Ameritech.net

[Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@shellworld.net>]

Gppd observations!  I will say for Ameritech that they were very helpful
this morning explaining what buttons went with what functions on my
cordless phone--a whole different department of course.  I sometimes am
concerned that we as blind people are losing the acces battle.  In
computers there are the Java and shockwave and flash issues, and whatever
else is around the corner.  In communications it's cordless phones and
cell phones that may even have some talking functionality, buut you have
to scroll through a silent menu to access the feature.  In tv, it's menus
ffor the tv and complex menus for the digital cable boxes.  Not at all
meaning to be negative, but I wonder if we are ever going to find
successful ways to bridge these gaps in an ongoing manner.  You can't
blame sighted people for designing equipment that caters to their dominant
physiical sense, but it sure makes it harder and harder for us to keep up.
A long way from where this topic started, but do any of the rest of you
have concerns about these things?  Is anybody finding positive ways of
dealing with them, especially if you don't have a sighted person around a
lot of the time?

Cheryl