Hi, Can someone examine a picture of the other phone to determine if the unnecessary buttons could be in some way covered. Are they recessed, is there a rim, for even a piece ov plexi to go across. It won't damage the buttons, it won't depress them, they won't get accidently activated, and Mom will have the continuous tone. Heck depending on placement, gluing a small plastic hinge to the case and the plexi could allow utilization of programming buttons on-the-fly (by who ever helps your mom) without a major dis-assembly of tape. I don't know. But this other phones features may be a help for that "1 button" dial management in the future.
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Lenny McHugh wrote: > I have a major telephone dilemma. My mother is 86 years old and lost most of > her eyesight. She was having difficulty using her telephone. I located a > large button phone that would also help with her hearing loss. Now the > problem is in her senior apartment there is a security system where someone > at the main door calls her room and she holds the 9 button and it unlocks the > door. The new phone will not unlock the door. When you hold the 9 button it > only gives the tone for about one second as opposed to a continuous tone. > I learned that there are several other residents with the same problem. > The ideal fix for this would be a one button box hooked up to the phone line > that would produce the tone. I have no idea how difficult it would be to > create this. My second choice was to find an old phone dialer. twenty years > ago I had one to use with a ham radio for the autopatch. I searched Radio > Shack where I purchased mine a long time ago. and they don't carry that > product any more. I did some internet searches and again could not locate one. > Any suggestions? > The manufacturer makes one other large button model but it has too many > buttons and features on it for her to operate, that model has the continuous > tone. > Lenny http://www.geocities.com/lenny_mchugh/ > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
