[access-uk] Re: 195 Charges
- From: "Graham Page" <gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:49:37 -0000
and it asumes you have purchased a PC, a screenreader and have received
appropriate training or mastered using the web yourself. This has
considerable cost implications.
Regards
Graham
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Beasley" <p.beasley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 6:25 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: 195 Charges
Of course you can always go online to find numbers but that is not always
convenient
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Page" <gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 6:06 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: 195 Charges
> in that case, we should receive all telephone directories in an accessible
> way that should cost us nothing to read. This would prove expensive and
> altimately problematic. A braille version of the phone directory would be
> inappropriate and a tape or CD version would take a long time to read and
> be
> impossible to search.
>
> O2 are in fact starting to introduce a number of questionable schemes
> which
> affect blind and sighted people it seems. for example, 0845 numbers are
> no
> longer counted as part of the free minutes allowance which is a problem
> though I know that geographic numbers can often be found as alternatives.
> We have to stick to our contracts that we are bound into and morally if
> not
> legally, companies like O2 should have to stick to theirs.
>
> Regards
>
> Graham
> Graham Page
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derek Hornby" <derek.hornby_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 1:42 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: 195 Charges
>
>
> Peter Beasley said:
>
> "I have never used directory enquiries from a mobile, but I definitely
> do
> not think we should be charged. "
>
> Why should service provider treat blind people differently from sighted
> people. Is that not against law DDA!
>
> If Sighted pay then yhes we should pay to get same service.
>
> There is a good case to argue that we can not read the hardcopy
> directory, but that really only applies for local numbers!So if the
> number
> wanted was for someone say 200 miles away, why should we have free
> service,
> and tighted don't.?
>
> Regards, Derek
>
>
>
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