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I have found that Sears has always had blind-friendly appliances.  I
recently bought a washer and dryer from them, and mine does click for the
different cycles.  It has the tactual line that you can feel where it's
pointing to.  I still have it labeled though.  All of their other brands
were digital and not accessible.  I'll have to look and see what brand I
have now. 

Sylvia Bernert
"If you can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it."

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of John Miller
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 3:21 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: OT regarding making home appliances accessible

My inlaws just got a new washer about 2 months ago. It's not the old style
dials but it has the dials that click for load size, water temp, and mode,
cycle what ever you want to call it. It would be easy to braille label, to
start it you just push a button. I don't know what brand it is or anything
but I've used it with no labeling when I was helping them move. IF mine dies
I hope to find one just like it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan R. Downing" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: OT regarding making home appliances accessible


>2 years or so ago, I was shopping for a new washing machine.  I looked 
>=  at the usual places such as Home Depot, Lowes, Fry's Electronics, 
>and =  the Maytag store.  I remember going into the Maytag store and 
>asking to =  be shown all of the washing machines, that I could operate 
>without =  sighted help.  The salesperson called the store manager 
>over, and he =  walked over and quietly explained that they didn't have 
>any machines =  with click-type knobs, or any thing else that he felt 
>that I could =  successfully use on my own.  After examining all of the 
>display models I =  concluded that he was absolutely right, there 
>wasn't a single washing =  machine in the place that I could independently
operate.
> What a world, Hi.
>
> Alan/KD7GC
>
> =20
> [*]=20

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