wish they took as much effort in understanding why we need a talking box, it a joke On Sep 18, 2011, at 6:45 AM, martin wilsher wrote: > HI Daren: > > thanks for this info. I was on the phone to them yesterday, and described > with some detail how I saw their new pages, and with the help of one of their > team, we wrote an email describing how the screen reader could not access the > new format. also, sky accessible customer services will talk sky plus > customers through setting things up manually re remote record if you tell > them what prigs you like watching. they will even go through a days listings > for a particular channel for you and help you set up a recording for a > programme. > > I'm glad they are onto the fault, but have to ask the question as to why the > accessible listings and remote record seem to be broken every time they > revamp their website? this isn't the first time this has happened. > > Hope to hear from you soon. > > From Martin. > > Email: m.wilsher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > my blog about serious issues: > > > http://bigpawedbear.livejournal.com/ > > > my less serious blog, > > <50033GBCubOnBackTomMurphy.jpg>http://www.tmurphywild.com/ > read a view of the world from a bear's eyes, a bear cub's blog at: > http://bigpawedbearcub.livejournal.com/ > > my skype name dobbinequine > follow me on Twitter: > > www.twitter.com/BigPawedBear > > > <cute polar bear on back, hind feet up.jpg> > personal Website: > > http://www.martin-wilsher.co.uk > > > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Darran Ross > Sent: 18 September 2011 00:23 > To: Access-UK > Subject: [access-uk] Heard Back from Sky > > Hi List. > > This is just for those like Martin and myself who were disappointed to find > problems using the screen reader friendly part of the TV guide over the last > couple of days. > > I dropped a line to the Sky accessibility folks this evening and within 45 > minutes received a very prompt response. Here's the relevant part. > Start Quote: At present we do have a technical issue with the screen reader > accessible pages > on the TV guide, we apologise for the inconvenience caused and can assure you > all is being done to find the cause of the issue and get this resolved ASAP. > End Quote. > > So all in all not to bad. Just looks like a temporary problem after all. Good > news. > > Darran >