Re: [AI] Emirates is the First to Introduce Audio Description on Inflight Entertainment | Interactive Accessibility

2014-08-07 Thread Mohammed Asif iqbal
My experiences with emirates is not so great. Flight attendance never bother to come and brief you. Matter of fact; I had to find the rest room using my cane. Thanks Asif -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Prashant Verma

[AI] Emirates is the First to Introduce Audio Description on Inflight Entertainment | Interactive Accessibility

2014-07-31 Thread li...@srinivasu.org
www.interactiveaccessibility.com/news/emirates-first-introduce-audio-description-inflight-entertainment Download the official Twitter app here Regards, Srinivasu Chakravarthula | PayPal | @csrinivasu Sent from my iPhone 5C Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing

Re: [AI] Emirates is the First to Introduce Audio Description on Inflight Entertainment | Interactive Accessibility

2014-07-31 Thread Kiran Kaja
I wonder if the interactive entertainment system is accessible in the first place? What is the point of having audio described movies when blind passengers can't get to them? asking cabin crew or a passenger next to you to select the movie seems a bit daft. Also you may not be able to pause the

Re: [AI] Emirates is the First to Introduce Audio Description on Inflight Entertainment | Interactive Accessibility

2014-07-31 Thread li...@srinivasu.org
Agreed. Perhaps writing to them would be a good idea. Let's see if we could find a right contact by pinging them on twitter. Regards, Srinivasu Chakravarthula | PayPal | @csrinivasu Sent from my iPhone 5C On 31-Jul-2014, at 20:17, Kiran Kaja kirankaj...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if the

Re: [AI] Emirates is the First to Introduce Audio Description on Inflight Entertainment | Interactive Accessibility

2014-07-31 Thread Kiran Kaja
Someone else should ask them on Twitter. Emirates is a crappy airline for blind passengers and I refuse to fly them no matter what on-board facilities they offer. The cabin crew either don't get any disability awareness training or don't remember their training. Sorry moderator for expressing my

Re: [AI] Emirates is the First to Introduce Audio Description on Inflight Entertainment | Interactive Accessibility

2014-07-31 Thread mahendra
my expirience with them was always good. At 05:25 PM 7/31/2014, you wrote: Someone else should ask them on Twitter. Emirates is a crappy airline for blind passengers and I refuse to fly them no matter what on-board facilities they offer. The cabin crew either don't get any disability awareness

Re: [AI] Emirates is the First to Introduce Audio Description on Inflight Entertainment | Interactive Accessibility

2014-07-31 Thread Prashant Verma
My several trips with Emirates have been very pleasant. In fact they have taken extra care at Dubai and Istanbul during transfers. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of mahendra Sent: 31 July 2014 23:21 To: AccessIndia: a list

Re: [AI] Emirates is the First to Introduce Audio Description on Inflight Entertainment | Interactive Accessibility

2014-07-31 Thread Prashant Verma
Definitely they should do more work on making the whole system accessible. I recall that a cabin crew had explained to me the functions of the tactile buttons on the remote control. After that it was manageable. But I have not travelled in this airline after introduction of this audio description

Re: [AI] Emirates is the First to Introduce Audio Description on Inflight Entertainment | Interactive Accessibility

2014-07-31 Thread Prashant Verma
Definitely they should do more work on making the whole system accessible. I recall that a cabin crew had explained to me the functions of the tactile buttons on the remote control. After that it was manageable. But I have not travelled in this airline after introduction of this audio description