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For want of a 'menu' button...
Apr. 12th, 2010 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
codeman38(I just posted about this in a comment on this older thread about having to ask people about non-obvious accommodations, but figured it'd probably be worth a post of its own.)
The student center building at my university has a couple TV lounges set up for students to use. Through no fault of the student center, the manufacturer of the TVs did not include any sort of 'menu' button on the front of the TV itself-- so it's impossible to turn on captions without the remote, for viewers who may need it.
Now even this didn't necessarily have to be a huge issue. What the student center easily could have done is chained or otherwise tied the remote to one of the couches so that it couldn't be stolen.
But no, that's not what they did. What they did was make it so that you have to go to the information desk and ask them to turn on the captions. Good luck if you can't speak and have to use a pen and paper to ask; of course, it's equally awkward if, like me, you can speak perfectly clearly but can't hear well. And of course, there's nothing posted anywhere indicating that the information desk has the remotes in the first place.
I've started just bringing a universal remote that I picked up on a clearance rack for $5; that's far less of a hassle...
The student center building at my university has a couple TV lounges set up for students to use. Through no fault of the student center, the manufacturer of the TVs did not include any sort of 'menu' button on the front of the TV itself-- so it's impossible to turn on captions without the remote, for viewers who may need it.
Now even this didn't necessarily have to be a huge issue. What the student center easily could have done is chained or otherwise tied the remote to one of the couches so that it couldn't be stolen.
But no, that's not what they did. What they did was make it so that you have to go to the information desk and ask them to turn on the captions. Good luck if you can't speak and have to use a pen and paper to ask; of course, it's equally awkward if, like me, you can speak perfectly clearly but can't hear well. And of course, there's nothing posted anywhere indicating that the information desk has the remotes in the first place.
I've started just bringing a universal remote that I picked up on a clearance rack for $5; that's far less of a hassle...