{"id":925510,"date":"2025-04-26T07:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=925510"},"modified":"2025-04-26T07:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:28:30","slug":"as-swiggy-zepto-face-legal-heat-mib-tells-otts-to-fix-accessibility-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/26\/as-swiggy-zepto-face-legal-heat-mib-tells-otts-to-fix-accessibility-features\/","title":{"rendered":"As Swiggy, Zepto face legal heat, MIB tells OTTs to fix accessibility features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant push for digital inclusivity, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has issued a fresh advisory to streaming platforms, calling on them to improve accessibility features for persons with disabilities (PwDs) in accordance with Indian law. <\/p>\n<p>The advisory, dated April 22, follows a December 2024 ruling by the Delhi High Court in the case of Akshat Baldwa &amp; Anr. vs Maddock Films Pvt. Ltd. &amp; Ors., which reinforced the legal obligation of digital content providers to cater to viewers with disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant push for digital inclusivity, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has issued a fresh advisory to streaming platforms, calling on them to improve accessibility features for persons with disabilities (PwDs) in accordance with Indian law. The advisory, dated April 22, follows a December 2024 ruling by the Delhi High Court in the case of Akshat Baldwa &amp; Anr. vs Maddock Films Pvt. Ltd. &amp; Ors., which reinforced the legal obligation of digital content providers to cater to viewers with disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}