[vip_students] Re: Trying to Watch Item on The Late Late

  • From: "tony sweeney" <deirton711@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:46:16 -0000

Thank you Paul. 

Have they not got obligations under webb accessibility law surely to do the 
right thing. 

Tony
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul J. Traynor (NCBI) 
  To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 4:38 PM
  Subject: [vip_students] Re: Trying to Watch Item on The Late Late


  Hi, I wrote to RTE recently about their accessibility issues with their web 
player and so on. I got an email back telling me that it would be looked into 
at the next board meeting. I feel this will not happen unless we all begin to 
write into RTE about the problems on their web site and the lack of 
accessibility of their live content. I would urge you all to make contact with 
RTE and voice your complaint about their site.

  Here is the contact details of the lady who wrote back to me about my query:

   

   

  (letter from RTE)

  Dear Paul

   

  I acknowledge receipt of your e-mail which I will forward to the Editor of 
RTÉ Online.

   

  I will also log your comments for review by the Editorial Board, as in this 
way all senior management will become aware of your experience and needs.  

   

  Thank you for taking the time to write.

   

  Kind Regards

   


  Brigitte Murphy
  RTÉ Information-Communications  

  Info@xxxxxx

   


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  From: Paul J. Traynor [mailto:pjtraynor@xxxxxxxxxx] 
  Sent: 13 October 2009 15:16
  To: Info
  Subject: Unable to access shows on web site!

   

   

  Dear Sir/Madam,

   

  I am a totally blind person. I have been using the internet for some years 
now but still whenever I try to access shows such as "Who do you think I am" I 
find that I have to cope with some sort of flash player that my screen reader 
cannot work with and therefore I  am unsuccessful in listening to such shows. 
It is dis-heartening when my sighted peers can use these players and listen to 
shows etc and I can't. It is not just myself who feels like this about the RTE 
website and its download or streaming content, lots of other blind people 
around the country find it as difficult as I do.

  I wish for this matter to be addressed in some way so that I can  access the 
media in the same way that my sighted family and friends can. Please can you 
help resolve this issue and let me know how this may be done.

   

  Yours sincerely,

   

  Paul Traynor.

  1.       Bothar Eanna,

  Convent lands,

  Carrickmacross,

  Co. Monaghan.

  Tel: (042) 9690803.

  EM:pjtraynor@xxxxxxxxxx

   


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