It's a huge struggle to find appliances that are accessible in that regard. Induction cookers for example are really tough to find with physical knobs even buying for oneself.

I can imagine that’s very much the case. But surely in specialised accommodation someone might have thought about ways to make appliances that’s aren’t immediately accessible, accessible enough for the user to use. I’m not blind so I don’t know exactly how, but I imagine braille stickers would be a start, and appliances with physical features?

Right, I wasn't excusing the accommodation centre, more pointing out that, even for a blind person like myself, finding appropriate appliances is a huge pain. Usually it requires some manual adaptation, like using one with knobs and placing some kind of notches on the knob or around it to indicate positions. Touchscreens make being blind a lot more difficult overall, I'd say. Had a similar problem when they changed the intercom system on my bloc of flats. All touch-based, so I can neither call from the outside, nor open from the inside.

Same same... It also transforms everything into computers, which in principle is fine (if you have a computer in there and good IO you can use any way to talk to it, and it can talk back, literally) but that's in the ideal world where software isn't crap. So instead of having a knob that governs a potentiometer or whatever, suddenly it's a computer, and one I can't use. Very frustrating indeed.