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ICT Accessibility for PWDs: from Principle to Practice

International Telecommunication Union Workshop “Accessibility to ICTs”, Shanghai, China, 23 July 2010. ICT Accessibility for PWDs: from Principle to Practice. Monthian Buntan, Senator of Thailand and President of Thailand Association of the Blind.

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ICT Accessibility for PWDs: from Principle to Practice

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  1. International Telecommunication Union Workshop“Accessibility to ICTs”, Shanghai, China, 23 July 2010 ICT Accessibility for PWDs: from Principle to Practice Monthian Buntan, Senator of Thailand and President of Thailand Association of the Blind

  2. Principle, Disability-specific Mandate and Mainstreaming Policy Statement • ICT accessibility, through universal design, assistive technologies and reasonable accommodation, is to ensure full and effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms by all people, mandated by Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and mainstreamed by World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) • CRPD (Art 9, 21, 30, etc) • WSIS Declaration of Principles (Para 13, 25, 30, 53, etc)

  3. Full Participation Leads to Full Inclusion • Political will/decision • Tangible policy and legislative measures can be achieved only through full and effective participation in decision-making process, especially in political arena

  4. Turning Principle into Practice • Mandated by CRPD and suggested by WSIS documents, internationally-recognized accessibility standards should be developed, promoted and implemented at all levels if accessibility were to be achieved.

  5. What is TAB-Telephony? On-Demand Digital Talking Book Delivery System over telephone Non-proprietary technology standard, primarily from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and DAISY Consortium (DC) Initiated by Thailand Association of the Blind (TAB) since 2005 through collaboration with NECTEC Ratchasuda Foundation under HRH Princess Mahachakri Sirindhorn

  6. Purpose and Benefit Rapid & Easy way to deliver DTBs Not necessary to check out DTB CDs at the Library There is no limit for number of DTBs (10.8 MB/a hour) Supported almost all legacy DTBs in past 2-3 years

  7. Purpose and Benefit (Cont.) • Always 24 x 7 non-disruptive service • World-wide available • Multilanguage supported • No need for expensive DTB playbacks or Personal Computers • Energy saving for those machines

  8. Feature Navigate book throughout library by using just 12 telephony keys Speed & Volume adjustable User-Profile by Caller number Automatic continuing reading at the recent position after call accepted Favorite Book Vote for Book & Vote for Narrator Usage Statistic for administration

  9. Infrastructure • Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Card • Voice Resource up to 120 Concurrences • General computer server • ISDN network subscription

  10. Client Side Summary To move to previous Chapter Move to previous phrase Move to the next phrase To move to next Chapter Dial to the TAB-Telephony system (1414) Select a catalog and book to read Control the reading by 12 Keys

  11. Usage Statistic (Per Month)

  12. The Next Steps Provide the Distributed Servers across the country to fix calling rate to 3 THB per call countrywide Provide online streaming service for the full-text/full-multimedia DAISY books by using popular web-browsers, on PCs or mobile phones

  13. Screenshot TAB-Telephony

  14. Screenshot TAB-Converter Convert All DAISY formats to DAISY3 with VOX audio format.

  15. TAB Thailand Association of the Blind is the national membership-based organization of blind people in Thailand. We are proud to share TAB Telephony through our local action of a global solution

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