Making Television Accessible
in Africa
Joint ITU/EBU Workshop
“How Can We Reach the Media Have-Nots of the
Developed and Developing Worlds?”
Peter Olaf Looms
Chairman, ITU Focus Group on
Audiovisual Media Accessibility
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Television in Africa is young
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What is the challenge?
TV for all, not just many!
At least 1 in 6 have problems watching TV
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What is the challenge?
Finding solutions in an ageing world
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What is the challenge?
Media for all, not just many!
Between 25 and 50% of elders
have problems watching TV
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What is the challenge?
Finding solutions all can afford
25 dollars is a lot of money for some
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Example 1
TV pictures we can’t see
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Example 2
Audio that is noisy
If we can do it for football
we can do it for other programs, too.
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Example 3
Emergency alerts for all, not just some
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What can we do today?
Access services for broadcast and IP TV
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What can we do today?
Access services for broadcast and IP TV
Access Services are already part of the
specification of broadcast television in
the main digital TV systems
Access Services for IPTV
are “work in progress”.
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Getting the big picture of
digital media accessibility
bird’s eye view
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Getting the big picture of
digital media accessibility
Discussing media accessibility
with practitioners and users
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How can we move forward?
By putting the pieces together
Share a vision
of media that
are truly accessible
Identify
actions that can
turn the vision
into reality
Propose a roadmap
of actions
and metrics
to measure progress
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FG AVA Deliverables
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Thank you!
Contact particulars
FG AVA website:
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/ava/Pages/default.aspx
FG AVA secretariat:
Alexandra Gaspari
tsbfgava@itu.int
Chairman:
Peter Olaf Looms
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25 May 2011 European Commission
DK-2950 Vedbæk
DENMARK
E: polooms@gmail.com
M: +45 51 56 75 46
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Thank you!
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What is the challenge?
Finding solutions all can afford
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