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Peter Olaf LoomsConsultant
Chairman, ITU-T Focus Group on Audiovisual Media Accessibility
Making Television Making Television InclusiveInclusive
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What is the problem?Announcements we don’t get
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What is the problem?Audio that is noisy
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What is the problem?Audio we can’t understand
23 March 2011: Why do the actors mumble in TV series?
Barrier-Free Digital Television 25 May 2011 European Commission Committed to connecting the worldITU-D Rapporteur’s Group Meetingon Question 20-1/1, Geneva, 12 May 2011
What is the problem?TV pictures we can’t see
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What is the problem?Solutions we can’t afford
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What can we do today?
1. Make programs easier to find
2. Make programs easier to see and hear for all Offer Access Services so that persons with disabilities
can also use and enjoy the same programs
Make programs specifically for persons with disabilities
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What can we do today?
Make programs easier to findfor persons with disabilities
Barrier-Free Digital Television 25 May 2011 European Commission Committed to connecting the worldITU-D Rapporteur’s Group Meetingon Question 20-1/1, Geneva, 12 May 2011
What can we do today?Make the picture easier to see
Barrier-Free Digital Television 25 May 2011 European Commission
What can we do today?Offer access services
Viewers born deaf or with hearing impairment
Signing and captioning
Barrier-Free Digital Television 25 May 2011 European Commission
What can we do today?Offer access services
Viewers who are blind or have visual impairments
Audio description (AD) or spoken captions/subtitles
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What can we do today?Offer access services
Viewers of programsin foreign languages
Dubbing or captioning in national language(s)
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What can we do today?Offer access services
Young viewers of foreignlanguage programs
Dubbing or voice-overs(lectoring)
Subtitles for young viewers whose parents are deaf
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What can we do today?Offer access services
Viewers of programswith people who speakfast or unclearly
Same language captions
Subtitles for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing (SDH)
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What can we do today?Offer access services
Migrants and immigrants Captioning in major languages
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Passing the batonFollowing up the work of DTV4ALL
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What is the report about?
1. What is the nature of the accessibility challenge?
2. What needs to be done? Announcements
Programs
Access services
3. What are the access options?
4. Access services: how can we create and deliver them?
5. What do they cost to set up and run?
6. What business models are there?
7. How do we introduce and scale up an access service?
§ Carrots and sticks
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What is the Focus Group about?
The terms of reference are here:http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/avaccessibility/Pages/tor.aspx
The kick-off meeting is on May 26 in
Geneva.
Alexandra Gaspari can help you
with documents and details.
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Thank you!
Contact particulars
Peter Olaf Looms
EBU and the National IT
and Telecom Agency, Denmark
Ellesvinget 25
DK-2950 Vedbæk
DENMARK
M: +45 51 56 75 46
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