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Another appliance search blighted by the existence of touch screens and the fundamentally exclusionary practice of cramming them into everything regardless of suitability. Want the best feature set? It's on the unusable model. Need accessibility? You'll need to sacrifice useful features, some of which would make the device more friendly to disabled people. I'm struggling to come up with fresh ways of articulating how mentally draining this is. To occasionally want to spend a bit of your hard earned money on something nice, only to repeatedly be shown that nice is synonymous with "we didn't think about disabled people." to see exclusion worming its way into cheaper and cheaper appliances, relegating disabled customers to an increasingly basic category of products that might eventually disappear. But what's the use in articulating it at all? The only people reading this here already know it because they live it every day. But at least I get to go to work and help make something I find morally deplorable more accessible in a bit! Happy Thursday.