BMTC starts reinstating voice-based announcements in buses for visually impaired passengers
The Hindu: Following the order by the Karnataka High Court, the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation has started reinstating audio-alerts or voice-based announcement systems to help visually-challenged persons travelling in its buses. BMTC officials told The Hindu that most of the buses have reinstated audio-alerts or voice-based announcement systems which will help visually challenged and also people who are new to the city or are travelling on new routes. According to officials, the main reason that the voice-based announcement systems were not working properly in the BMTC buses was because of glitches in the Intelligent Transport System. Now, with the introduction of voice announcements, navigating BMTC has become much easier for me as a newcomer to the city.” Apart from this, the court had also asked the State’s public transport corporations to take further steps to make their app visually-challenged friendly based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which defines how to make web content more accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities.
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