Dear George, I am also very concerned with inaccessibility in this arena. Technology-wise, the only solution is to have set-top boxes with talking features. Such products exists and our operators just need to adopt them and offer to consumers for purchase. I am sure blind persons will be ready to pay that extra few thousand rupees for such devices. Saksham, particularly Mr. Dipendra Manocha has tried to work with Dish TV and Tata sky recently to make them adopt these devices. Unfortunately, after the initial enthusiasm not much progress has taken place.
Since we are a negligible market I wonder whether these operators will ever offer it for commercial considerations. It needs to be enforced by law. But we don't have any laws yet to ensure accessibility of ICT infrastructure. The government has adopted a policy only and not much work is being done on it. In the interim, I have tried to put together the channel list of popular service providers in Braille, audio and eText on my website. Keeping them up-to-date has proved to be very difficult however. The Tata Sky channel list is available on the page given below. you can at least check the number of your favourite channel. Tata Sky is also providing the program guide on their website but it is not fully accessible. Channel list: http://www.worldofdth.com/thread-wod-exclusive-tatasky-channel-list-as-on-11 -july-2015 Tata Sky TV guide: http://www.tatasky.com/wps/portal/TataSky/channels/tvguide We should together do something about this. With regards, Prashant -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of George Abraham Sent: 12 July 2015 13:12 To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled.' Subject: [AI] DTH entertainment services! Hi Folks, I use Tata Ski at home. With each new set top box, I have been finding it more and more difficult to navigate the menus. Not sure if the Tata Ski promoters consider us blind people as stakeholders. When I started with Tata Ski, I could get to the channels I wanted easily thanks to the favourite feature. Sadly, with technological advancement and the more sophisticated the digitisation has become, the more difficult it has become to navigate. What is the state with other DTH services? Given the nation's rush towards digitisation, I am not sure how great it is going to be for us. On the one hand digital India holds great promise for us, but if the digitisation process does not consider us as stakeholders, then we are in for deep trouble. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessind ia.org.in 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. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in 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. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
