{"id":975858,"date":"2025-11-22T08:34:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=975858"},"modified":"2025-11-22T08:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:22:26","slug":"ott-players-seek-recast-of-broadcast-ministrys-accessibility-norms-call-timelines-unworkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/22\/ott-players-seek-recast-of-broadcast-ministrys-accessibility-norms-call-timelines-unworkable\/","title":{"rendered":"OTT players seek recast of broadcast ministry\u2019s accessibility norms, call timelines unworkable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The over-the-top (OTT) platforms, working in alignment with industry bodies the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and the Indian Broadcasting &amp; Digital Foundation (IBDF), have raised concern over the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting\u2019s draft accessibility guidelines for streaming services.<\/p>\n<p>While the sector supports the government\u2019s objective of improving content accessibility for persons with disabilities, the OTT platforms said the proposed rules are impractical, financially onerous, and risk hurting India\u2019s rapidly expanding digital video market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The over-the-top (OTT) platforms, working in alignment with industry bodies the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and the Indian Broadcasting &amp; Digital Foundation (IBDF), have raised concern over the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting\u2019s draft accessibility guidelines for streaming services. While the sector supports the government\u2019s objective of improving content accessibility for persons with disabilities, the OTT platforms said the proposed rules are impractical, financially onerous, and risk hurting India\u2019s rapidly expanding digital video market.<\/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":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975858","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=975858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}