Amar, Quite a few cab services, at least in Delhi, have a feature of dropping an sms of the total billed fare once the driver releases the meter. guess, we could ask for this provision to be introduced.
On 12/6/12, Amar Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am in touch with Meru officials, with a view of making the cab > services accessible for blind. As of now, I am not promising anything > in this direction, as it not only depends on what we want, but also > depends on what resources the company can utilize for that, and what > efforts it takes for them to implement the same. However, the initial > response of the officer was positive and that makes me drop an email > to the list as a quick response to their reaction, for suggestions on > what kind of accessibility we are looking for, and how it can be > implemented. > > Before I put forward my views, in order to bring everyone on the same > level, it is important to mention that by accessibility I do not mean > to tackle the situation of the maximized availability of cabs on > account of blindness, and any such other thing. I am focusing on the > making the inside services of cabs accessible to us. > > The problem which I have is that we aren't able to read the meters > while travelling, and nor are we able to gather the information at the > time the driver is swiping our card for payment. Similarly, the final > invoice also is inaccessible to us, because of which we are not able > to figure out the total distance travelled, final amount charged, etc. > This leads us to be dependent on the driver. Trusting someone is not a > problem, but if you have a solution which enables to do things > yourself, then why not. > > What are your suggestions along with the way of implementation > (keeping indian conditions and minimal resources) in mind? > > How far the audio prompts (on demand) in these areas is a good solution? > > Are the solutions proposed costly to implement? > > Feel free to consider all angles. I am not in a position of having a > telephonic chat before 9th of December (Sunday), so an email will be > highly appreciated. > > Thanks, > -- > Amar Jain. > Website: www.amarjain.com > > 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/[email protected]/ > > 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 > > 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/[email protected]/ 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
