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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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/decision
Tangible 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, internationallyrecognized 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 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
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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
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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
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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
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Infrastructure
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Card
Voice Resource up to 120 Concurrences
General computer server
ISDN network subscription
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Client Side Summary
1.
2.
3.
Dial to the TAB-Telephony system
(1414)
Select a catalog and book to read
Control the reading by 12 Keys
To move to previous Chapter
Move to previous phrase
Move to the next phrase
To move to next Chapter
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Usage Statistic (Per Month)
Month/Year
Accepted Call
Rejected Call
Phone Line
Availability
01/2010
79,395
91,834
90
02/2010
73,294
88,533
90/120
03/2010
89,204
7,121
120
04/2010
87,805
738
120
05/2010
95,159
6,244
120
06/2010
99,747
24,937
120
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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 webbrowsers, on PCs or mobile phones
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Screenshot TAB-Telephony
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Screenshot TAB-Converter
Convert All DAISY formats to DAISY3
with VOX audio format.
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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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