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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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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)

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Full Participation Leads to Full Inclusion

Political will/decisionTangible policy and legislative measures can be achieved only through full and effective participation in decision-making process, especially in political arena

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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.

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What is TAB-Telephony?

On-Demand Digital Talking Book Delivery System over telephoneNon-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

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Purpose and Benefit

Rapid & Easy way to deliver DTBsNot necessary to check out DTB CDs at the LibraryThere is no limit for number of DTBs (10.8 MB/a hour)Supported almost all legacy DTBs in past 2-3 years

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Purpose and Benefit (Cont.)

Always 24 x 7 non-disruptive service World-wide availableMultilanguage supportedNo need for expensive DTB playbacks or Personal ComputersEnergy saving for those machines

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Feature

Navigate book throughout library by using just 12 telephony keysSpeed & Volume adjustableUser-Profile by Caller numberAutomatic continuing reading at the recent position after call acceptedFavorite BookVote for Book & Vote for NarratorUsage Statistic for administration

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Infrastructure

Interactive Voice Response (IVR) CardVoice Resource up to 120 ConcurrencesGeneral computer server

ISDN network subscription

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Client Side Summary

1. Dial to the TAB-Telephony system (1414)

2. Select a catalog and book to read3. Control the reading by 12 Keys

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To move to previous Chapter

Move to the next phraseMove to previous phrase

To move to next Chapter

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Usage Statistic (Per Month)

Month/Year Accepted Call Rejected CallPhone LineAvailability

01201/0

79395, 91834 90

02201/0

73294, 88533, 90120/

03201/0

89204, 7121, 120

04201/0

87805, 738 120

05201/0

95159, 6244, 120

06201/0

99747, 24937, 120

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The Next Steps

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

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Screenshot TAB-Telephony

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Screenshot TAB-Converter

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Convert All DAISY formats to DAISY3 with VOX audio format.

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TABThailand 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