Dear Amar An SMS should be the simplest thing to implement. Besides, you can consider to Adapt the Smartshehar app to also carry their fare structure. Harish Kotian -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Amar Jain Sent: 06 December 2012 14:59 To: accessindia Subject: [AI] Improving Meru Cab Accessibility For Blind: Suggestions Invited.
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
