[bookport] Re: My suggestion about tactile markings
- From: "Sarah Cranston" <cranston.sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:20:14 -0500
Anthony,
The earbuds that come with the BookPort were not made by APH. They were
probably purchased in bulk, then distributed with the BP. Since APH did not
manufacture them, they should be under no obligation to "specially mark" each
and every set of earbuds they ship with their products. They did produce the
BookPort, and it does have tactile markings to indicate which direction the
batteries should point.
Sarah
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Anthony
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 4:41 AM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: My suggestion about tactile markings
So what you are saying is companies should make absolutely no effort to make
products more user friendly for people who can't see, I know I could do the
labels my self but why should I have to The product is supposed to have been
designed for people who can't see this is also reflected in the price that
people pay for it it costs more because it is specially designed for people who
are blind. If it was a cheap mp3 player I would agree with you but it isn't.
Anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: David Allen <mailto:wd8ldy@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 10:13 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: My suggestion about tactile markings
Hi Anthony and list:
Regarding your suggestion about adapting earbuds, I'll share a bit of
experience with you.
Several months ago, I followed advice of several audiologists and purchased a
set of hearing aids. In case some reading this are not aware, hearing aids
require the use of an earmould, which is custom made to fit the person's ear.
It is physically impossible to put the wrong aid into the wrong ear. Believe it
or not, while you may have two ears, they are not enough alike to allow you to
even attempt using the right aid in the left ear or vice versa. I needed a way
of easily being able to know which aid was which so I wouldn't try to do the
impossible.
Each aid comes with it's own case. So I made small dymo labels L and R to
attach to the cases.
The point that I'm making here is that I didn't expect nor ask my audiologist,
professional though he may be, to solve my problem. After all, it wasn't his
problem, it was mine. I took charge of that problem and applied a reasonable
solution that worked. Similar means could easily be found for "marking" earbuds
to your liking. Please give it some consideration.
Cheers,
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Anthony <mailto:anthony.gough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 8:38 PM
Subject: [bookport] My suggestion about tactile markings
My point about the headphones was not that people didn't like them or found
them difficult to use, it is about aph and good design of equipment for people
who can't see. Both the headphones and batteries can be used the wrong way
round and as this equipment is designed for people who can't see the print
markings on the headphones or the symbols in the battery compartment surely aph
should have have had enough experience to have thought about this issue and got
it right.
Also external speaker The belt clip might not be such a good idea but I don't
want to use speakers from radio shack as someone suggested basically because I
don't want lots of extra wires all over the place. There are times when the
unit being equiped with a speaker might be of use. I came across a device
called a griffin for an apple ipod, if you don't know what it is basically it
is a small box with a 3.5 hack sticking out of the bottom of it and it sits on
top of the ipod, it makes the unit a bit longer. I haven't tried one as I
don't have an ipod but I would think aph could design something similar that
when installed would look as if it was part of the bookport, they could either
put a dummy usb plug to stop the speaker more stability or put a real usb plug
with a socket in the top of the box so you could still plug in the usb cable
with the speaker atached.
Anthony
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