Are disabled people catered for in products enaough?

[Brian Gaff]

Seems to me in the flurry to cater for the young, the old and disabled are
being forgotten.
I think one of the really good things companies making consumer products
should do is embed simple technology for those with poor or no sight. it has
to be pretty easy to do these days if done at the design stage. it will cost
peanuts to build in the extras. a tiny speaker, a b bigger display?
Items in need of treatment.
Phones mobile and home
TV and Radios
Washing machines and other devices which increasingly have touch buttons
and screens instead of good old tactile knobs and buttons.
At the moment proof that it can be done can be seen in clocks and watches at
cheap prices which speak.

Even Argos sells them, so why should it take a disabled charity to get a
talking set top box for freeview? and then at a ridiculous cost of 80 quid
when the features are available without the talking for less than half that
amount?

Come on, its not rocket science these days.
Brian

[Frederick Williams]

Post by Brian Gaff
Seems to me in the flurry to cater for the young, the old and disabled are
being forgotten.

In recent years two seemingly contradictory things have happened: a lot
of people (influential 'opinion formers', many of them) has insisted on
equality; meanwhile the very same bunch of people has insisted that
various groups are treated preferentially.