Dear Friends
Two months ago, I shared a positive initiative by Union Bank of India regarding the launch of a digital accessibility enhancement dedicated project called Union Access. Myself and Rahul Gambhir are the resources involved in this project. It is an immense task to integrate ICT accessibility across the organization which will take time. We have taken several steps in this direction. Bank is on its journey to enhance digital accessibility. We are happy to share a few areas of our work in the last few months. Submitted more than 30 digital accessibility and user interface enhancement feedback and testing reports to different departments. Concern teams were made aware of accessibility challenges. We have covered digital banking channels, mobile apps, email communications and internal portals. Most important area of ongoing work is spreading awareness to integrate accessibility. We are continuously engaged in the process. We have developed 2 training modules and now they are part of the bank's eLearning system. We have done vendors’ sensitization, staff awareness, communications with departments and a very recent one is this week team Union Access conducted a series of sessions on accessible and inclusive banking for newly joined 600+ Probationary officers. These new POs will be tomorrow’s decision makers and will spread further awareness to 6000 bankers wherever they will be posted. So the bank has done the right thing to introduce them regarding disabilities, inclusive banking and accessibility. Many activities were carried out as part of Union Access like survey, books publication, email communication accessibility enhancement, ecirculars accessibility, documentation, data collection, support to users and customers, talking ATM feedback and so on. It is great learning for us in setting up a project on digital accessibility in a large-scale bank with 75000+ employees. Few successes we did achieve however, aiming for major remediations and 'accessible by design' products. Most important thing is today there is a buzz word regarding Union Access and accessibility in the Union Bank of India and with due course we are hopeful to achieve milestones on accessibility improvements. We urge Access Indians and friends to write to us with suggestions and feedback regarding Union Bank of India Digital spaces to email id unionacc...@unionbankofindia.bank Thanks and regards, Prashant Naik Mob: 9967968881 -- 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.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to accessindia+unsubscr...@accessindia.org.in. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/CAJgH%3DoUrH5LqN5%3DM5QzLvo92wfrD9HyRQA31x5bm4gHS9ZBD-g%40mail.gmail.com.
