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Improve microwave accessibility for blind people

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My husband is blind, and a lot of microwaves these days have flat number pads that give him no indication of where to push to enter the time or make it start cooking! So he's really happy about being able to cook himself a cake in a mug or some microwave popcorn (you know, all those health foods blokes love :-) while I'm off at work.

I did 1, 3, and 5 because they're commonly used numbers on the microwave (1 minute, 1:30, 5:00) and once my husband finds those, it's pretty easy to move down or across to the other numbers (e.g. it's quicker and easier to find the dot to the right of the 1 than look for a numeral 2 on a whole line of numbers).

I could have done them all in braille numbers, but my husband is more comfortable with Roman numerals so for him it's quicker (a neighbour taught him to read as a child by touching car number plates!) - plus all the braille dots would cover up more of the numbers underneath that sighted people are looking for.

Thanks for the excellent product and service!

Belinda from Australia