Dear all, I have sent the following message to IRCTC on behalf of National Association for the Blind, Delhi. You may also please take up this matter individually or through your organizations.
To, The Director Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd., B 148, 11th Floor, Statesman House, Barakhamba Road New Delhi-110001 Tel: 011-23311263/64, 23314752 , 23314784 Emails: i...@irctc.com, gg...@irctc.com, c...@irctc.co.in . Subject: Denial of Internet ticketing facility to blind persons Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing on behalf of the visually impaired community of the country. Your Railway Ticketing website www.irctc.co.in has now become totally inaccessible to use for the millions of blind persons in the country. It may be noted that with persistent advocacy and favourable court orders we had been able to get the changes implemented in the earlier IRCTC website. In particular OTP based verification was specially introduced as an alternative to the graphical CAPTCHA. Even though the website was not fully compliant to the International or National Web Accessibility Guidelines, it was usable by digitally literate blind persons including myself. You may be aware that even totally blind persons can use the computer and internet independently using Screen Reading software (Talking software like NVDA, Jaws). However, despite having this ability blind persons cannot use the websites which are designed in violation of standard practices and accessibility guidelines. You have recently put in place a totally new website for internet ticket booking. This website is unfortunately totally inaccessible for blind persons and also those disabled persons who cannot use the computer mouse. The OTP verification feature put in place by you is of no use now. The blind persons are not able to even reach to the login form. We have received complaints to this effect from many blind persons from the country. I have also personally verified the issues with the website. We urge you to immediately get the website tested and retrofitted for accessibility. It must be made compliant to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0. We can assist in this process if you so desire. You will appreciate that blind persons like other citizens have a right to use the railways and therefore should be capable of booking tickets online. The Ministry of Social Justice has in fact provided Online Rail Reservation Concession Cards in collaboration with railways for this purpose. But now with the change in the reservation website, these Cards are also of no use. Please take up this matter urgently and for the moment restore previous version of the website. You may get the new interface tested and corrected simultaneously. Any change in this kind of website should be done only after disability accessibility audit since it is used by persons with different capabilities and disabilities all over the country. I am sorry to say that if urgent action is not taken on this matter, we will be forced to escalate this matter to the Government and Judiciary. Thanking you, Prashant Ranjan Verma Hony. General Secretary National Association for the Blind Sector-5, R.K. Puram, New Delhi - 110022 India Phones: 011 26102944, 26176379, 8826260010 Email: i...@nabdelhi.in Website: www.nabdelhi.in HELPLINE FOR THE BLIND 1800 300 20469 DONATE ONLINE www.nabdelhi.in/donate Income Tax exemption under Section 80G. -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Rohiet A. Patil Sent: 15 June 2018 21:19 To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Subject: Re: [AI] IRCTC new website, looking confusing, any clue? I try the same on boath IE and Firefox. But I am getting a totle blank page. Jaws is giving the message "Page has no links". -----Original Message----- From: Mohib Anwar Rafay Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 12:01 AM To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] IRCTC new website, looking confusing, any clue? Even with NVDA, I am unable to navigate the website. Its accessibility gone. On 6/14/18, Faizal K A <faizal.uni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Even I too found the same problem. Its new lay out not allowing me to > book ticket. Then later I tried with NVDA. Here after log in button as > usual it asked my user name and password to enter. after doing that > while checking the OTP option OTP is not at all coming. I tried > several time. But no luck. Anyone has any suggestion? > > > -- > "Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that > happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward > achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." > Have a fantastic day ahead! > Warm Regards, > Faizal K.A > Mobile: 09846888227. > faiza...@experienceace.com > faisal.vaduth...@gmail.com > faizal.uni...@gmail.com > > > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org > .in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking > of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its > veracity; > > 2. 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