Well, this new way of doing things on apple tv means you really can't
go by previous experiences with older models. That is because they now
have an app model rather than a channel model. So gone is the
accessible grid-type layout. The remote is totally different. There is,
as yet, no bt keyboard access, but there is apparently some sort of
work around involving the use of an iPhone. Since I don't have the A tv
4, I didn't pay particular attention to the details. And, with the app
model, it means that who ever develops the app for the channel or group
of channels is free to make it as accessible or not as they wish.
Hopefully, this one you just mentioned will have done the right thing
with regard to implementing accessibility within their app.Netflix
still hasn't managed to make  audio description accessible by the end
user. You have to call them and hope you get a rep with a clue; they
turn it on for you at their end, and then it is on for everybody all
the time on any program that has it, whether they want it or not, e.g.
somebody sighted who doesn't want it is out of luck. 

Hopefully, all this stuff will get ironed out in time, and the
experience will end up being a positive one with more variety and
flexibility than we enjoyed with older versions. I myself am not
running out to buy one. <smile>

Mary


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