I have XM in my car.  I have found the XM web site totally useless for
finding out what is on what.  The station display is LCD and also totally
inaccessible.  ON the plus side:  in my case I have two different ways to
find specific channels.  First off, the tuning knob is has detents, so if I
know where I am starting from, I can count channels. The easier way, though
probably not available to most people, is I can push a button and say, "xm
channel 40" or what ever, and the car radio verifies what I said using
synthetic speech, and then tunes to that channel.

Bill
 

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Subject: [VICUG-L] Question re accessibilitly of satellite radio services

Does anyone have information about the accessibility of satellite radio
services such as Xm and Sirius?
Such as about their Online radio streaming and website accessibility?
About the radio receiving products used, such as the displays on radios
having font size increases or the ability to color change the font?

Do the latest wearable radios also have audio navigation where the channel
names are spoken in an audio file rather than just displayed to confirm
channel for a listener with vision loss?

What about customer service? Do they have  voice menu that works for people
with vision loss?

Do we know if they bill in alternate formats?

Any information would be helpful for me as I'm gathering information about
this. Thanks.

Jenifer

AAPD

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