Unlike the majority, I really enjoy the commentary on TV (ESPN Star) compared to the radio's running commentary where only the ball-to-ball description is spoken and other information/discussion is often neglected. + the quality isn't up to my liking. Anyhow, watching cricket on TV makes me feel lot closer to the game than listening the radio. I am only referring to cricket here. Nirandas Website: http://www.nirandas.com ----- Original Message ----- From: prateek aggarwal To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [AI] a question for all
Respected George sir, Firstly I will thank you for razing such a sensitive matter which is definetly in the favor of maximum in the community. Watching sports is one of the most common hobbies of human beings. The type of sport may vary, but the natural zeel remain same in everyone all around the world. Though sports event are happening since very long, but there won't be any exaguration to say that media played a very vital role in popularizing them. In fact, almost every common man takes interest in watching the live telecast of matches on tv or listen the commentary on radio. Earlier DD started this work in india, but now many sports channels are accomplishing this task with great enthusiasm. Reason is that because a great number of mass watches the telecast, the scope of promoting the prodict is very much for companies. The sports channels get a big amount of money from companies to show their adds during the matches. As we said that almost everyone likes the sports, visually impaired people can not be separated from the statement. radio has been a very good friend of a visually impaired since long. This not only gives them the flare of music and news, but also present sport's commentaries which gives a big amount of pleasure to visually impaired people. Unfortunately, because of some rights and other related issue, AIR doesn't brought cast every match/ series. therefore, the one and only alternative is TV. While Imerging technologies and trends made the experience of watching matches more entertaining for cited persons, this created some problems for visually impaired people. As we are completely dependant on the commentary, inaccessible commentary has produced many problem in order to understand the live actions. Specially, the commentary brought casted on international channels like ESPN, star sports, sony max, z cricket etc. really made the task of enjoying live sporting actions very difficult. The unfortunate part is that now a days, Door darshan is also brought casting the same commentary as other international channels which abolished the last hope too. As a summary, enjoying the sports through TV has became a very challenging task for us. Though problem is same for whole world I suppose, but I will talk about india only because I better know the actual situation of only here . As we know that india has biggest misfortune of having maximum visually impaired in whole world, it's the responsibility of everyone to provide accessible environment for them. As I already told that like everyone else, sports is one of the basic requirement of the lives of differently ables. The TV channels will have to understand the need of providing accessible commentary of sports so that every visually impaired person can easyly understand and enjoy the live action. Though it's understandable that making them completely accessible is very difficult if not impossible, but it's a high time for sports channels to think about adding some fair accessibility features in the commentary. Here are some suggestion which must implemented. 1. Commentriators should announce score after every minute at least. 2. They should speak the names of players time to time. For example, if it's cricket, name of baller, name of striking batsman, name of fielders, etc. 3. Sometimes, they don't tells the discribtion of very important happenings. For example, if it's cricket, four, six, wicket, etc. they should give it's discribtion sincerely instead of discussions. 4. They should speak the important stats/ records which are presented time to time on TV screens. For example, if it's cricket, number of wicket for a baller, number of matches for batsman, number of catches, etc. 5. They should announce all the other relevant informations related to the particular sport. If TV channels can consider the above suggestions, they can make visually impaired enable in enjoying sports. With profound regards, Prateek agarwal. Cell: 09928341197 e-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] you can visit my website for lots of stuff related to visually impaired and others. Please go on to www.prateekagarwal.webs.com Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
