[Arizona-students] Fw: sgiggar@sbcglobal.net: Talking DVD player.]

[Arielle Silverman]

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Subject: sgiggar at sbcglobal.net: Talking DVD player.]


Every one,
Please take some time and write to this person at Panasonic to indicate
your desire to have an accessible DVD player for your TV. He needs to
hear from as many of those of us who are blind or visually impaired and
who want to have an accessible DVD player.

Also, pass this on to others who might write a letter/email.


----- Forwarded message -----
from Stephen Giggar <sgiggar at sbcglobal.net>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@mail.brannan.name>

      Didn't know if any of you have seen this or not but I thought I
would send it on. My self I will e-mail the person to let them know that
I would buy one if it came out. I think the more people who email the
person at the bottom of this email the greater the chanses it will come
out.

Below is an item from the Reader's Forum in The Ziegler Magazine.

>From Ray Slaton, Tallahassee, FL:
Around a year ago I had a conversation with the
accessibility program manager for the Panasonic company,
Robert Wegner, about making their products more
accessible.  At that time he invited blind people to
write Panasonic with their suggestions.  I recently wrote
him to see if there had been any developments in
accessibility, and received the following letter, which
may interest other blind people:
Dear Mr. Slaton,
Thank you very much for your message.  Since our initial
communication, more than 140 persons have requested a
talking DVD recorder/player.
     At current, we have a working concept unit, which we
showed to the National Federation of the Blind (NFB).
The NFB was very optimistic about it.  However, no plans
exist at this time on making this a real product.  My
next battle is to convince our sales company to request
this type of talking unit from our design team.
     If you have any information that this type of
product could be sold with some respective quantities,
please pass them on to me.
Best regards
Robert Wegner,
Accessibility Program Manager
Product Safety and Compliance Division
Panasonic Corporation of North America
3 Panasonic Way, Mail Stop 4B-8,
Secaucus, NJ 07094
201-392-6115; fax 201-392-4564
wegnerr at us.panasonic.com

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