I never take the opinion of a manufacturer about accessibility of their
products unless they can explain what they claim in a manner that says they
know what they're talking about.

Actually I never directly ask a company if a blind person can run their
thingie, most of them havn't the faintest idea so will make up an answer.
Unless a tuner required you to make selections from an inaccessible display,
seems to me most of them you just hit a "tune" button and wait for it to
finish clicking and whirring.

If you end up with low vswr, you got it made.

I should think one would quickly learn the kinds of noise patterns your tuner
produces.

Not everything absolutely has to yack at you to be usable.

Tom Fowle WA6IVG

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 08:11:38AM -0700, Jim Gammon wrote:
> I have a question about the FMJ 998 auto tuner.  How user 
> friendly is it for blind folks? I recently purchased, then 
> returned an LDGAT600 Pro tuner to use with my ALS600 Amp because 
> the LDG tuner not accessible far as I could tell though I only 
> had it online a few minutes.  Also, I found through an email 
> which is the only way you can talk to LDG, that the LDG  
> engineers said that blind people would not be able  use that 
> tuner.  So that limits my operating space to where my SWR is best 
> tolerated by the amp which is the best way but I am interested in 
> other people's solutions to this issue.  Looking for a good 
> auto-tuner that can handle 600 watts.  73, Jim WA6EKS