I love the use of the word 'some' in the following
sentence from Sky's
website: "For the first time Sky customers will be able
to hear some of
the on screen text"
They could quite easily have used the phrase "a bit of
text" or "less
text than the rest of our customers experience for less
money" in place
of the word 'some' here.
I think this is a crying shame. Sky have gone to what I'm
sure is a big
effort to get this home install program going. But why
would I want a
gizmo that tells me I've hit the rewind button after I've
hit the rewind
button? Or says the word 'play' all over the beginning of
the program
I'm about to watch. But seemingly there will be little
point in me being
told it's a play button if I can't play anything off the
sky+ menu due
to its continued inaccessibility anyway.
But I'm still not convinced by what I've read even on the
website due to
the bad communication to date. I still wouldn't be at all
surprised if
it was able to read the EPG.
Sighties would be starting a Facebook group about this
round about now.
...Damon
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Sent: 07 October 2010 08:05
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sky not talking a lot?
hi mike,
NO. ON the sky accessibility site
http://accessibility.sky.com/news/sky-talker
says
For the first time Sky customers will be able to hear
some of the on
screen text. It will vocalise the search and scan banner,
programme
synopsis information and Sky+ functionality such as play,
pause and
rewind - making navigation easier and quicker for blind
and partially
sighted customers.
Almost 2 million people in the UK have sight problems,
around 100 people
every day begin to lose their sight and the number of
people with sight
problems is predicted to double by 2050.
Sky Talker will integrate seamlessly with the Sky+ and
Sky Digi boxes so
customers can continue to use their existing service
without having to
learn a new User Interface.
Sky Talker will be compatible with Sky+HD boxes, from
summer 2011.
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