I just know where the start button is. I put the timer on longer than I want and just set a timer on my phone then open the door when my phone time ago is off
Probably not the best solution but it works for my soup!!!
Hope this helps

Whatever you do, double check that any beeps or other sounds it makes are actually synchronised with the controls. Our microwave adds thirty seconds to the time for every time you press the start button, and it bleeps. That works fine for everything I need. If there's anyone out there who ever does anything with a microwave other than stick it on full power for anything other than a multiple of thirty seconds, I'd be amazed.

So, if I want a minute and a half, I press three times and hear three bleeps. But here's the kicker. If you press really fast, it adds the thirty seconds to the time, but it doesn't bleep.

Thanks for that, microwave people. Thanks a bunch. Gotta love you.

I don't bother looking for accessible microwaves. Instead I just buy a quality microwave with a number pad and have a sighted person help me stick bump dots on the buttons. I don't cover every single one, just enough so I can use the bits I care about. For example, we have a Panasonic unit and I've stuck buttons on numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 0, as well as the start, stop, and 1-minute buttons. I don't care about any of the other fancy crap it comes with. That's enough for me to use the thing. I do agree, stay away from microwaves with encoder wheels. You can learn to time the ticks and figure out how many seconds each one adds, but eventually the wheels get gunked up and one tick may not register reliably. It might register as multiple ticks.

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I have the Amazon Smart Oven, which is a little expensive, but the microwave part that I've tried, I've not had it long so I've not tried the convection or airfrying parts, works well. I've not even had to put on the braille overlay, just tell Alexa "microwave for 3 minutes," or something and it does it. It's not as powerful as other microwaves, it takes a little longer to cook stuff, but shoot, it's better than an inaccessible stuff.

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