[access-uk] Re: microwave touch screens plus pen friend waterproof
- From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 09:12:18 +0100
Adeel. Be really careful before you purchase this.Get it properly demoed
in the store. If they won't let you, then don't buy it or negotiate
money off because you might have to take it back again which will cause
you huge inconvenience and possibly extra taxi fares.
Just putting labels on the buttons might not be the half of it.
Though you might be aware what button does what, first check out how
much of this is menu driven. There may be a certain amount you have to
commit to memory i.e. that if you press the weight button it steps up in
increments of 7 ounces or you might have to cycle through a whole bunch
of different settings such as meat, poultry, bread, etc before getting
to high power. Will you be able to remember all this, could you make
errors and could it just be too much hassle? It really depends on the
individual microwave.
For ease and peace of mind, I'd personally go for a 25 quid cheapo
mechanical dial one which will have just timer as a rotary dial and
settings as a switch between low medium and high power. Very easily
labeled and understood with no menus. Unless you fancy forking out the
best part of 200 quid for the accessible microwave oven from Cobolt
which I really did like until it broke. It's particularly helpful when
defrosting and can be recommended fairly highly on that alone.
Remember kids, make lots of healthy batch meals, freeze them and then
eat them at your leisure. Much cheaper too. Then blast them in your
accessible microwave: can you say "re-arrange" in a slightly robotic
voice?
...Damon
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Mohammed Adeel
Sent: 04 August 2010 02:53
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] microwave touch screens plus pen friend waterproof
hi, i'm planning 2 purchase a microwave. I was wondering whether the
touch screen only models can be made accessible by using braile labels?
Also is the pen friend device and the labels it comes with waterproof? I
would like to use it in the kitchen. I don't want the labels peeling off
or the gadget not working etc.
Thanks,
Adeel
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