Well I have engaged with the CEO of Tata Sky. They are working on a voice
guided settop box. They expect to have their system in place in the next
couple of years. In the mean time someone from his team called and helped
me configure a set of favourite channels. I can now get to my favourite
channel with just a couple of clicks of the remote.
Likewise, I have been engaging with the IT guys of my bank who have taken
on board my challenges and have agreed to work on them. In the mean time
they have been giving me personalised service with some of the challenges
I
have been facing.
I think that need of the hour is to dialogue and help the service
providers
understand our challenges. Guess this approach will not work with the guys
from the Govt.
-----Original Message-----
From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On
Behalf
Of kanchan Pamnani
Sent: 30 July 2015 19:10
To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issuesconcerning
the disabled.
Subject: Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services!
Prashant and all,
Sorry for responding so late. I would like a proper note on this. I have
an idea-it may take some time but I think it will work. Of course we have
to
confront the government and the companies. If nothing else it will cause
enough noise and plenty of discomfort.
Please could we have a team of 3 apart from Prashant and Dipendra and take
this off line for a few days.
Kanchan Pamnani
Advocate & Solicitor
9, Suleman Chambers,
Battery Street, Colaba,
Mumbai - 400 039.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Prashant Verma " <prashant...@gmail.com>
To: "'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues
concerningthe disabled.'" <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2015 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services!
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-1
1
-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
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Sent: 12 July 2015 13:12
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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.
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