Hi Patty, I am very interested to know about your experience with Tebow. I didn’t realize it would work with multiple providers, as I thought it was for DIRECTV. Could you write me privately at the following email address? Kriegler [email protected], spelled KRIEGLER [email protected]. Thank you. Les
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 17, 2018, at 5:48 AM, Patti Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have the TiVo and truly love it, it does everything, unless your > cable provider starts to mess up, which mine frequently will do if > they're trying to make any changes. > My provider thinks they can choose what is accessible, so is not > providing a settop box as of now. They want us to use the roku which > is at best sluggish, not nearly as accessible as they think it is; and > at worst, just not acceptable, but to their way of thinking it's > accessible and no one has told them what that means, they choose what > they think it means. > I know the tivos are pricey, depending on what you get I suppose, and > I have heard some of the boxes can break down, but if you have one > that works it's wonderful, I don't regret purchasing one at all. > I am jus disappointed my provider has the attitude it does about what > accessibility really means, in the way of providing a box. > Patti > >> On 10/16/18, Arlene <[email protected]> wrote: >> For the person that was asking about verizon, not knowing if you're in an >> area that is served by cox, comcast and or dish, here's some information to >> >> consider, of which we've had both experience with cox and dish. Cox and >> comcasts's accessibility is very good, because both companies use a x2 set >> top box. The voice is pleasant. You have a 1 button direct access therefore >> >> you can turn the voice on and off as needed. Since you don't have to relie >> on a onscreen keyboard there's no problem or issue in turning to any channel >> >> you want, just punch it up on the remote. With cox you can get all the >> information you need this information about what I'm going to tell you about >> >> the information that you could hear is based on a cox subscription, however >> >> comcast should be close to the same. That is, when you press the information >> >> when you're watching a show or you tune to a channel, it will tell you >> information such as the name of the show, and how much time is left on the >> show. It seems that it depends on the show, but for some shows it will give >> >> you the show name and a brief description of the show. Dish is a very >> simular experience, though the speech is kind of crummy, reminding us of >> xp's narrator, but even worse. The male voice will give you that same >> information such as the name of the show and a brief description of the >> episode, and depending on the show the date of the episode. We ended up >> quitting dish for 2 reasons, they could never get the tuner in the hopper to >> >> work correctly. The second reason is that with the xm radio channels there >> were random dropouts in the audio, lasting anywhere from 1 second to about 3 >> >> minutes, the average being about 5 to 10 seconds. After working on this with >> >> them after 3 years, these issues were never resolved. This is what I >> believe, they could have solved the problems but there was no interest on >> their part to do so. If our cable wwasn't as good of an experience as it is >> >> for us currently, we would have the cord completely cut because beleive me, >> >> there's no shortage of alternative entertaiment options. Note, this is just >> >> a thought for those of you, that are having disappointing accessiibility >> issues, if you're provider offers a program card for tvo, it might be >> something worth looking into. We don't know if all the tvo boxes are all >> accessible but we do know of a few people that have certain models that are >> >> good when it comes to accessibility. Now for the apps, the dish app, dish >> anywhere app is an okay app. The sling app, we didn't like it. The sling >> app you could get free if you have the hopper from dish, or you could buy >> the sling tv stick and use the app. Using with the hopper we found it kind >> of clunky and didn't always give the information you wanted out of it. >> There's 2 cox apps, the cox connect app has access simular to the cox web >> page about billing and other details, and the contore app is where you could >> >> watch the tv channels, schedule recordings and other things, both these apps >> >> are accessible. >> >> Arlene and Wayne >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Steve Matzura" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 5:43 AM >> Subject: Re: FIOS TV >> >> >>> I've been a Fios customer since September, 2010. The accessibility >>> features in the current set-top boxes is relatively new--about two years >>> now, I think. On the whole, it's very accessible, just not 100% so. >>> >>> >>> Depending on which box you get, and there are at least two, possibly three >>> >>> different ones, the position in the menu tree for turning accessibility on >>> >>> differs, but the basic concept is the same. You have to press the remote's >>> >>> MENU button, navigate to Settings, then to Accessibility,and the rest >>> should be intuitive when you get to that branch of the menu tree. In fact, >>> >>> some boxes will tell you when you get to the accessibility option without >>> >>> having to explicitly turn it on. I think this is one of the stupidest >>> things ever, since there is no documented way of getting to that option to >>> >>> begin with, so what are you supposed to do, hunt around for it? So you'll >>> >>> definitely need assistance to turn it on. Verizon can provide you that >>> assistance over the phone by looking up which box you have, and telling >>> you which buttons to pres. If you follow their directions to the letter, >>> it will work. >>> >>> >>> Now, what you get when you turn accessibility on isn't perfect. For >>> instance, the search option doesn't talk at all, but browsing the >>> electronic program guide, or EPG, does. None of the help screens speak. >>> Also, pressing the big round INFO button doesn't give details of what >>> you're watching, only the summary screen is spoken. That is, it speaks the >>> >>> name of the show, season number, episode number and name, but no details, >>> >>> such as plot, stars, etc. On the music channels, you only get to hear the >>> >>> channel name, not the name of the playing track. On most music channels, >>> there is an on-screen scroll of information about either the currently >>> playing artist, or the channel's genre, which also is not voiced. >>> >>> >>> ON the whole, it's quite useful and usable, just not to the detailed level >>> >>> some might want. >>> >>> As for the phone or computer application, I also give that less than high >>> >>> marks. Everything's there--descriptions, ability to browse and use the >>> EPG, direct channel tuning, all that--but the layout is anything but >>> optimal, and the on-screen keyboard for channel selection by number has a >>> >>> horrid timeout problem, which means no matter how fast you are with a >>> phone and your phone's screen reader, you'll never be fast enough to type >>> >>> more than two digits of a channel number before the software thinks you're >>> >>> done and tunes your set-top box to that two-digit channel number. Example: >>> >>> CoziTV is Fios channel 460. If I type 4, then 6, while I'm finding the 0 >>> and pressing it, the timeout has already stopped taking input from the >>> on-screen keyboard, so my box gets set to channel 46. Another problem is >>> that the on-screen keyboard is sometimes overlaid with part of the rest of >>> >>> the controls and options, so it's sometimes not possible to display the >>> whole keypad, making even attempting to select a channel by number most >>> difficult, if not altogether impossible. Of course, users that don't >>> require a screen reader can simply push the rest of the stuff out of the >>> way, revealing the full keyboard. I'm not sure whether a Bluetooth >>> keyboard would or could solve this problem, and to be fair, there may have >>> >>> been updates to the application since last I tried it, which was probably >>> >>> about four years ago, that may have solved this and other accessibility >>> problems. >>> >>> Hope this helps. >>> >>>> On 10/16/2018 5:19 AM, Larry Smith wrote: >>>> Is there anyone on this list using verizon FIOS TV set top box? If so, is >>>> >>>> it accessible using the remote control? Also, can the set-top-box and TV >>>> >>>> content be access using the mobile app? I currently have directv. I am >>>> very unhappy with them! 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