Hi Cristobal, reading your email I am sure glad I don't like coffee! 🤣 From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Cristóbal Muñoz Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2023 1:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Accessibility of Acaia apps and scales
Hello list, So I currently use the Smart Chef kitchen scale from Reflex for making coffee as well as with my espresso machine. The app’s accessible and everything, but the spoken announcement of the measurement as you pour is on the laggy side. Therefore, I’m in search of a more responsive and accessible alternative. Acaia has a series of coffee/espresso scales that are on the higher end of Smart coffee scales. The Pearl S scale<https://acaia.co/collections/coffee-scales/products/pearl-model-s?variant=43635168968932> apparently speaks the measurement and time as you pour independent of an app. If I had my choice, I’d probably opt for this one straight away. Unfortunately though, it won’t fit in between the legs of my espresso machine (Cafelat Robot). They also have two other scales. The Lunar scale<https://acaia.co/collections/coffee-scales/products/lunar_2021?variant=43059769606372> that has the same dimensions of the Smart Chef scale as well as the Pyxis scale<https://acaia.co/collections/coffee-scales/products/pyxis?variant=42060048728292> which is super tiny, but will fit. These unfortunately do not have voice prompts like the Pearl. Does anyone here use any of these scales? Are the Acaia apps at all accessible and if so, how’s the latency with speaking the liquid as you pour? Their scales have a bunch of other features like visual graphs where you can compare different espresso shot profiles, but I’m mostly interested in being able to know the pouring info as well as the timer. I currently use a separate interval timer app as well as the Smart Chef scale app to measure out my shots and pour-overs and while that workflow is accessible enough, the lagginess of the Smart Chef scale makes pulling a precise espresso shot harder. I did already reach out to Acaia with this same inquiry and this is their response: “We have previously worked with visually impaired people to develop technology to assist them with coffee brewing. This work and research led to incorporating sound and voice into the new Pearl S scale we released in November 2022. In addition to the Pearl S scale, we have made some of our supplemental applications, such as Brewmaster, compatible with native text-to-voice software on iOS and most Android mobile devices.” While this is an encouraging response, we all know “accessible” can mean different things to different people. I was hoping for some real world blind user feedback since the prices for these scales aren’t for the faint of heart. Thanks, Cristóbal -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/0b0f01d97946%247ecdd2f0%247c6978d0%24%40gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/0b0f01d97946%247ecdd2f0%247c6978d0%24%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/PH7PR12MB565646E65D7E7CE70E065CCBC76B9%40PH7PR12MB5656.namprd12.prod.outlook.com.
