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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 -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_accessin d 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
Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services!
Maybe we can use your case as an example. The government needs a little prodding and that prodding can be only done by court but only after some proper documentation. Therefore I suggest we have a small research and drafting team. I have a backhand idea and it will definitely open some space for others to go in and negotiate solutions. Kanchan Pamnani Advocate Solicitor 9, Suleman Chambers, Battery Street, Colaba, Mumbai - 400 039. - Original Message - From: George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled.' accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services! 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 -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
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-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
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I think the matter should be taken to the information and broadcast ministry. As set top box is made compulsory they can force the DTH provider to provide talking set top box on demand. 1 more provision can be made that like gsm sim card we should be able to install any digicard in the set top box of our choice. I agree with Jorge sir, the digitization has put new challenges to VI community not only in DTH Matter but also in other areas of life. Still Prashant Sir and group of peoples struggle for Talking ATM is not over, we are facing the problem of inaccessible money deposit machines. Many of newly constructed buildings has the lift which has touch pad. New models of of ovens and washing machines has touch pad or even those does not have the touch pad and has physical keys they are not embossed. It makes me think that was analog time was better for VI community? - Original Message - From: George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled.' accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 12:58 PM Subject: Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services! Would you know people at positions of influence at any of the service providers? -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Prashant Verma Sent: 13 July 2015 12:50 To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled.' Subject: Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services! Technically this is possible only when the settop box has built-in TTS. Service providers are now a days selling boxes of diferent types e.g. with HD quality, with recording etc. All they have to do is to introduce the set-top box developed in UK with RNIB as one of the options. If the set-top boxes were interchangeable between operators then also we can just buy such a box from outside india and use in our homes. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Mahesh Narasimhan Sent: 12 July 2015 16:45 To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services! Dear George Sir, Great point you have shared! I would like to share a suggestion. With the growing demand for the DTH services, the remote controls can have a couple of extra buttons on it which would be integrated with the whole system. One button can be used to switch over the interactive voice and the other button can help us in repeating the highlighted message. Rest all the buttons can continue doing the existing functions. This would be helpful not only for visually impaired persons, but it would be of great help to the senior citizens of the country as well. If convincing, I believe this matter must be escalated to the highest level. -- Good friendship is like the relationship between eye hand! If the hand is hurt, the eye will cry! when the eye cries, the hand will wipe the tears With best regards, Mahesh Narasimhan Mobile: +91-9899353960 E-mail: maheshde...@gmail.com Skype: maheshdel88 On 7/12/15, George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org wrote: 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_acc essindia.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
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George Sir is right, we need to find the influential person, calling customer care doesn't help in anyway. On 7/13/15, sampath raj rao sampath.4...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's time to put the word to the concerned dept. as a few months ago we had an article published on dailies over the portability of DTH service using the same set up box so that such newly designed portable setup boxes can be built with accessibility features from the scrap itself instead raising this issue later after such boxes come into market. On 7/13/15, Zoher zos...@gmail.com wrote: I think the matter should be taken to the information and broadcast ministry. As set top box is made compulsory they can force the DTH provider to provide talking set top box on demand. 1 more provision can be made that like gsm sim card we should be able to install any digicard in the set top box of our choice. I agree with Jorge sir, the digitization has put new challenges to VI community not only in DTH Matter but also in other areas of life. Still Prashant Sir and group of peoples struggle for Talking ATM is not over, we are facing the problem of inaccessible money deposit machines. Many of newly constructed buildings has the lift which has touch pad. New models of of ovens and washing machines has touch pad or even those does not have the touch pad and has physical keys they are not embossed. It makes me think that was analog time was better for VI community? - Original Message - From: George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled.' accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 12:58 PM Subject: Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services! Would you know people at positions of influence at any of the service providers? -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Prashant Verma Sent: 13 July 2015 12:50 To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled.' Subject: Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services! Technically this is possible only when the settop box has built-in TTS. Service providers are now a days selling boxes of diferent types e.g. with HD quality, with recording etc. All they have to do is to introduce the set-top box developed in UK with RNIB as one of the options. If the set-top boxes were interchangeable between operators then also we can just buy such a box from outside india and use in our homes. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Mahesh Narasimhan Sent: 12 July 2015 16:45 To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services! Dear George Sir, Great point you have shared! I would like to share a suggestion. With the growing demand for the DTH services, the remote controls can have a couple of extra buttons on it which would be integrated with the whole system. One button can be used to switch over the interactive voice and the other button can help us in repeating the highlighted message. Rest all the buttons can continue doing the existing functions. This would be helpful not only for visually impaired persons, but it would be of great help to the senior citizens of the country as well. If convincing, I believe this matter must be escalated to the highest level. -- Good friendship is like the relationship between eye hand! If the hand is hurt, the eye will cry! when the eye cries, the hand will wipe the tears With best regards, Mahesh Narasimhan Mobile: +91-9899353960 E-mail: maheshde...@gmail.com Skype: maheshdel88 On 7/12/15, George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org wrote: 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_acc essindia.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
Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services!
I think it's time to put the word to the concerned dept. as a few months ago we had an article published on dailies over the portability of DTH service using the same set up box so that such newly designed portable setup boxes can be built with accessibility features from the scrap itself instead raising this issue later after such boxes come into market. On 7/13/15, Zoher zos...@gmail.com wrote: I think the matter should be taken to the information and broadcast ministry. As set top box is made compulsory they can force the DTH provider to provide talking set top box on demand. 1 more provision can be made that like gsm sim card we should be able to install any digicard in the set top box of our choice. I agree with Jorge sir, the digitization has put new challenges to VI community not only in DTH Matter but also in other areas of life. Still Prashant Sir and group of peoples struggle for Talking ATM is not over, we are facing the problem of inaccessible money deposit machines. Many of newly constructed buildings has the lift which has touch pad. New models of of ovens and washing machines has touch pad or even those does not have the touch pad and has physical keys they are not embossed. It makes me think that was analog time was better for VI community? - Original Message - From: George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled.' accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 12:58 PM Subject: Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services! Would you know people at positions of influence at any of the service providers? -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Prashant Verma Sent: 13 July 2015 12:50 To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled.' Subject: Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services! Technically this is possible only when the settop box has built-in TTS. Service providers are now a days selling boxes of diferent types e.g. with HD quality, with recording etc. All they have to do is to introduce the set-top box developed in UK with RNIB as one of the options. If the set-top boxes were interchangeable between operators then also we can just buy such a box from outside india and use in our homes. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Mahesh Narasimhan Sent: 12 July 2015 16:45 To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services! Dear George Sir, Great point you have shared! I would like to share a suggestion. With the growing demand for the DTH services, the remote controls can have a couple of extra buttons on it which would be integrated with the whole system. One button can be used to switch over the interactive voice and the other button can help us in repeating the highlighted message. Rest all the buttons can continue doing the existing functions. This would be helpful not only for visually impaired persons, but it would be of great help to the senior citizens of the country as well. If convincing, I believe this matter must be escalated to the highest level. -- Good friendship is like the relationship between eye hand! If the hand is hurt, the eye will cry! when the eye cries, the hand will wipe the tears With best regards, Mahesh Narasimhan Mobile: +91-9899353960 E-mail: maheshde...@gmail.com Skype: maheshdel88 On 7/12/15, George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org wrote: 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_acc essindia.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
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Technically this is possible only when the settop box has built-in TTS. Service providers are now a days selling boxes of diferent types e.g. with HD quality, with recording etc. All they have to do is to introduce the set-top box developed in UK with RNIB as one of the options. If the set-top boxes were interchangeable between operators then also we can just buy such a box from outside india and use in our homes. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Mahesh Narasimhan Sent: 12 July 2015 16:45 To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services! Dear George Sir, Great point you have shared! I would like to share a suggestion. With the growing demand for the DTH services, the remote controls can have a couple of extra buttons on it which would be integrated with the whole system. One button can be used to switch over the interactive voice and the other button can help us in repeating the highlighted message. Rest all the buttons can continue doing the existing functions. This would be helpful not only for visually impaired persons, but it would be of great help to the senior citizens of the country as well. If convincing, I believe this matter must be escalated to the highest level. -- Good friendship is like the relationship between eye hand! If the hand is hurt, the eye will cry! when the eye cries, the hand will wipe the tears With best regards, Mahesh Narasimhan Mobile: +91-9899353960 E-mail: maheshde...@gmail.com Skype: maheshdel88 On 7/12/15, George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org wrote: 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_acc essindia.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_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
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Would you know people at positions of influence at any of the service providers? -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Prashant Verma Sent: 13 July 2015 12:50 To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled.' Subject: Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services! Technically this is possible only when the settop box has built-in TTS. Service providers are now a days selling boxes of diferent types e.g. with HD quality, with recording etc. All they have to do is to introduce the set-top box developed in UK with RNIB as one of the options. If the set-top boxes were interchangeable between operators then also we can just buy such a box from outside india and use in our homes. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Mahesh Narasimhan Sent: 12 July 2015 16:45 To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] DTH entertainment services! Dear George Sir, Great point you have shared! I would like to share a suggestion. With the growing demand for the DTH services, the remote controls can have a couple of extra buttons on it which would be integrated with the whole system. One button can be used to switch over the interactive voice and the other button can help us in repeating the highlighted message. Rest all the buttons can continue doing the existing functions. This would be helpful not only for visually impaired persons, but it would be of great help to the senior citizens of the country as well. If convincing, I believe this matter must be escalated to the highest level. -- Good friendship is like the relationship between eye hand! If the hand is hurt, the eye will cry! when the eye cries, the hand will wipe the tears With best regards, Mahesh Narasimhan Mobile: +91-9899353960 E-mail: maheshde...@gmail.com Skype: maheshdel88 On 7/12/15, George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org wrote: 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_acc essindia.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_accessin d 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_accessin dia.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
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Dear George Sir, Great point you have shared! I would like to share a suggestion. With the growing demand for the DTH services, the remote controls can have a couple of extra buttons on it which would be integrated with the whole system. One button can be used to switch over the interactive voice and the other button can help us in repeating the highlighted message. Rest all the buttons can continue doing the existing functions. This would be helpful not only for visually impaired persons, but it would be of great help to the senior citizens of the country as well. If convincing, I believe this matter must be escalated to the highest level. -- Good friendship is like the relationship between eye hand! If the hand is hurt, the eye will cry! when the eye cries, the hand will wipe the tears With best regards, Mahesh Narasimhan Mobile: +91-9899353960 E-mail: maheshde...@gmail.com Skype: maheshdel88 On 7/12/15, George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org wrote: 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_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.. 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..
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Could any of you provide contact details of Tata Sky where I can directly reach them? On 7/12/15, Bhavya shah bhavya.shah...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Could someone describe the status and level and quality of audio description for TV shows and movies in developed countries like the United Kingdom? I know that there is widespread audio description in UK and something with Netblink in this field itself also transpired a while ago. I would love to know someone's personal experience, views, thoughts and opinions about this in developed countries and the possibilities and feasibility of bringing this to India as well. Thanks. On 7/12/15, sampath raj rao sampath.4...@gmail.com wrote: I feel as an immediate and temporary relief, service providers can atleast make the channel number and channel name be announced in voice along with the display of the same on screen as it appears on screen for a few seconds normally. Hope this is not a tedious job for the service providers as it is to do with the software and it can be updated as usually how the software is updated on our DTH setup box once in a few months atleast for those who request. In future all the features can be made in voice through the same software in such a way while displaying can read and hope this may not be expensive as it is to do only with software and nothing with hardware. On 7/12/15, Mahesh Narasimhan maheshde...@gmail.com wrote: Dear George Sir, Great point you have shared! I would like to share a suggestion. With the growing demand for the DTH services, the remote controls can have a couple of extra buttons on it which would be integrated with the whole system. One button can be used to switch over the interactive voice and the other button can help us in repeating the highlighted message. Rest all the buttons can continue doing the existing functions. This would be helpful not only for visually impaired persons, but it would be of great help to the senior citizens of the country as well. If convincing, I believe this matter must be escalated to the highest level. -- Good friendship is like the relationship between eye hand! If the hand is hurt, the eye will cry! when the eye cries, the hand will wipe the tears With best regards, Mahesh Narasimhan Mobile: +91-9899353960 E-mail: maheshde...@gmail.com Skype: maheshdel88 On 7/12/15, George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org wrote: 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_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.. 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.. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing
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Tata Sky toll free number: 18605006633. -- Good friendship is like the relationship between eye hand! If the hand is hurt, the eye will cry! when the eye cries, the hand will wipe the tears With best regards, Mahesh Narasimhan Mobile: +91-9899353960 E-mail: maheshde...@gmail.com Skype: maheshdel88 On 7/13/15, Tilakprasad Joshi tilakjoshi1...@gmail.com wrote: Could any of you provide contact details of Tata Sky where I can directly reach them? On 7/12/15, Bhavya shah bhavya.shah...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Could someone describe the status and level and quality of audio description for TV shows and movies in developed countries like the United Kingdom? I know that there is widespread audio description in UK and something with Netblink in this field itself also transpired a while ago. I would love to know someone's personal experience, views, thoughts and opinions about this in developed countries and the possibilities and feasibility of bringing this to India as well. Thanks. On 7/12/15, sampath raj rao sampath.4...@gmail.com wrote: I feel as an immediate and temporary relief, service providers can atleast make the channel number and channel name be announced in voice along with the display of the same on screen as it appears on screen for a few seconds normally. Hope this is not a tedious job for the service providers as it is to do with the software and it can be updated as usually how the software is updated on our DTH setup box once in a few months atleast for those who request. In future all the features can be made in voice through the same software in such a way while displaying can read and hope this may not be expensive as it is to do only with software and nothing with hardware. On 7/12/15, Mahesh Narasimhan maheshde...@gmail.com wrote: Dear George Sir, Great point you have shared! I would like to share a suggestion. With the growing demand for the DTH services, the remote controls can have a couple of extra buttons on it which would be integrated with the whole system. One button can be used to switch over the interactive voice and the other button can help us in repeating the highlighted message. Rest all the buttons can continue doing the existing functions. This would be helpful not only for visually impaired persons, but it would be of great help to the senior citizens of the country as well. If convincing, I believe this matter must be escalated to the highest level. -- Good friendship is like the relationship between eye hand! If the hand is hurt, the eye will cry! when the eye cries, the hand will wipe the tears With best regards, Mahesh Narasimhan Mobile: +91-9899353960 E-mail: maheshde...@gmail.com Skype: maheshdel88 On 7/12/15, George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org wrote: 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_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.. 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
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Not only that, but also just like the local cable operators, they've also started shifting various channels to different numbers very frequently, that is why I've now stopped maintaining the list of the channels. - Original Message - From: George Abraham To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled.' Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2015 1:11 PM 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_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.. 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..
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Dear George Handling two remotes was main problem. I bought a videocon tv with inbuilt dth. Now we have only one remote and the challenge was only remembering channels. I created a small list of channels we see and the job was done. Nirmal On 12-Jul-2015 2:17 pm, Prashant Verma prashant...@gmail.com wrote: 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.. 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
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I feel as an immediate and temporary relief, service providers can atleast make the channel number and channel name be announced in voice along with the display of the same on screen as it appears on screen for a few seconds normally. Hope this is not a tedious job for the service providers as it is to do with the software and it can be updated as usually how the software is updated on our DTH setup box once in a few months atleast for those who request. In future all the features can be made in voice through the same software in such a way while displaying can read and hope this may not be expensive as it is to do only with software and nothing with hardware. On 7/12/15, Mahesh Narasimhan maheshde...@gmail.com wrote: Dear George Sir, Great point you have shared! I would like to share a suggestion. With the growing demand for the DTH services, the remote controls can have a couple of extra buttons on it which would be integrated with the whole system. One button can be used to switch over the interactive voice and the other button can help us in repeating the highlighted message. Rest all the buttons can continue doing the existing functions. This would be helpful not only for visually impaired persons, but it would be of great help to the senior citizens of the country as well. If convincing, I believe this matter must be escalated to the highest level. -- Good friendship is like the relationship between eye hand! If the hand is hurt, the eye will cry! when the eye cries, the hand will wipe the tears With best regards, Mahesh Narasimhan Mobile: +91-9899353960 E-mail: maheshde...@gmail.com Skype: maheshdel88 On 7/12/15, George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org wrote: 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_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.. 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.. 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
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This talk of digital India and smart cities at this rate are frightening prospects! -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Prashant Verma Sent: 12 July 2015 14:17 To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled.' 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 -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_accessin d 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_accessin dia.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
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-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..
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Hi, Could someone describe the status and level and quality of audio description for TV shows and movies in developed countries like the United Kingdom? I know that there is widespread audio description in UK and something with Netblink in this field itself also transpired a while ago. I would love to know someone's personal experience, views, thoughts and opinions about this in developed countries and the possibilities and feasibility of bringing this to India as well. Thanks. On 7/12/15, sampath raj rao sampath.4...@gmail.com wrote: I feel as an immediate and temporary relief, service providers can atleast make the channel number and channel name be announced in voice along with the display of the same on screen as it appears on screen for a few seconds normally. Hope this is not a tedious job for the service providers as it is to do with the software and it can be updated as usually how the software is updated on our DTH setup box once in a few months atleast for those who request. In future all the features can be made in voice through the same software in such a way while displaying can read and hope this may not be expensive as it is to do only with software and nothing with hardware. On 7/12/15, Mahesh Narasimhan maheshde...@gmail.com wrote: Dear George Sir, Great point you have shared! I would like to share a suggestion. With the growing demand for the DTH services, the remote controls can have a couple of extra buttons on it which would be integrated with the whole system. One button can be used to switch over the interactive voice and the other button can help us in repeating the highlighted message. Rest all the buttons can continue doing the existing functions. This would be helpful not only for visually impaired persons, but it would be of great help to the senior citizens of the country as well. If convincing, I believe this matter must be escalated to the highest level. -- Good friendship is like the relationship between eye hand! If the hand is hurt, the eye will cry! when the eye cries, the hand will wipe the tears With best regards, Mahesh Narasimhan Mobile: +91-9899353960 E-mail: maheshde...@gmail.com Skype: maheshdel88 On 7/12/15, George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org wrote: 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_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.. 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.. 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:
