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" <[email protected]> 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:[email protected]] 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/[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 > > > 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. 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