Focus Group Meeting 3
19 January 2012
Barcelona (UAB)
ITU-T Focus Group on
Audiovisual Media Accessibility (FG AVA)
version 1
Peter Olaf Looms
Chairman
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FG AVA: What are we aiming to do?
October 2012
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FG AVA: Where are we now?
What is the
final deliverable?
January 2012
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FG AVA: the final deliverable
From AVA-I-0002: Suggested objectives and procedures for the first Focus Group meeting
By October 2012 we will have produced...
The FG AVA roadmap: suggested accessibility
actions that provide ITU with solid basis for
future work (e.g. What needs to be changed or
added to standardization,legislation and media
regulation to make AV media more accessible?)
Our roadmap gives concrete examples of good
practice (How can we make AV media accessible?)
Our roadmap shows how the UN CRPD* can be
applied to the delivery, use and enjoyment of
digital AV media (How can CRPD make a
difference?)
Persons with disabilities feel that the Focus
Group has made a difference to AV media. International
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
*UN CRPD = UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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Accessibility = AV Media for All
Listening
Watching
Sharing
Enjoying
Creating?
Participating
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Which AV-Media?
(Need to have or Nice to have?)
Source: The Economist Print Edition
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December 10, 2011
Which AV-Media?
How much is spent globally?
Forecast
Sources: The Economist Print Edition December 10, 2011;
IDATE Next Gen TV 2011 - from World Television Markets January 2010
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Which AV-Media?
How many have access?
Approx. 20% of the global population have no electricity*
TV
Mobile
statistics
will be added
Internet
Source: ITU Geneva November 2011
* Ban Ki-moon Powering sustainable energy for all International Herald Tribune
page 12 January 12 2012
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AV-Media ≈ Digital Media
From AVA-I-0003: Scoping the terms “audiovisual media” and “accessibility”
TV & Radio
programs
Social Media
Digital
Broadcast
IPTV
Films
Open Internet
Video games (?)
Mobile &
Wireless Net
Content
Platforms
(networks)
Digital
TV Receivers
PCs
Smartphones & Tablets
Peripherals
e.g. Remote Controls
Assistive Technologies
e.g.Hearing aids
Devices
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AV-Media Accessibility
What can we do?
Usability: do something to make
programs as intelligible as possible
Context of use: platform issues
Remote control design
Pips on mobile keyboards
user profiles to access media
direct connections from TV and mobile
to hearing aids
Access services: offer captioning,
audio description, sign language
Intelligent devices: make devices
truly assistive
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Our road map - the process
Putting the pieces together
Future
Gap between
vision and current
situation
Present
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Our road map - the process
Putting the pieces together
Where do we want
AV Media to be?
What roadmap
of actions
and metrics
do we recommend
to the ITU?
Present
Future
Gap between
vision and current What actions
situation
can bridge
the gap?
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FG AVA Deliverables
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FG AVA Meetings - plans in Sept 2011
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FG AVA Meetings - revised plans
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FG AVA Meetings - revised plans
Participants from stakeholders
who really know
what they are talking about
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FG AVA Meetings - revised plans
Self-funded: Participants
have limited or no resources
for international travel
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FG AVA Meetings - revised plans
1. Focus on
virtual communication
in Working Groups
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FG AVA Meetings - revised plans
2. Working Groups working over two
days using GetToWebinar
to discuss and edit draft outputs.
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FG AVA Meetings - revised plans
3.Changed focus of
international meetings:
feedback on preliminary findings
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FG AVA Working Groups
Working Group A: Captioning
Working Group B: Audio/Video description and spoken captions
Working Group C: Visual signing and sign language
Working Group D: Emerging access services
Working Group E: EPGs & on-air promotion
Working Group F: Participation and digital media
Working Group G: Digital Broadcast Television
Working Group H: IPTV
Working Group I: Mobile and handheld devices
Working Group J: Key Performance Indicators
Working Group K: Accessible Working Procedures
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FG AVA Working Group Activities
WG coordinators
to identify
interdependencies
at regular
meetings via Web
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FG AVA Working Group - logistics
Joining a Working Group:
Contact the secretariat to get access to the group at tsbfgava@itu.int
Contributing to answers to the 4 questions:
Writing in a closed environment for each WG using a collaborative
working tool. The agreed WG starting point for from this meeting
will be posted by the FG AVA management (we will be using
SharePoint)
Discussing differences of opinion between FG AVA meetings:
Using Skype, e-mail exchanges, GetToMeeting or Adobe Connect
(the FG AVA secretariat will assist here)
Agreeing with others in the WG that a preliminary version is
ready: Publishing a “frozen” draft on the FG AVA website for
discussion with stakeholders (the coordinator sends the document to
the FG AVA secretariat so that it can be posted)
WG coordinators revising a draft briefing document
for circulation to FG AVA members by January 26.
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Questions?
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Agenda for today
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Welcome note by Dr Maria José Recoder, Vice-Rector of the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB
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AVA-I-0086 – Presentation of the ITU-T Focus Group AVA Meeting
no. 3: 19 January 2012,
Barcelona, Spain
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2
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AVA-I-0055r1 - Meeting Agenda – Third FG Audiovisual
Media Accessibility
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3
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AVA-O-0002 Report of the second FG AVA meeting (Geneva,
15 September 2011)
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4
Review of progress on Logistics and infrastructure for
the work of the FG and its Working Groups since second FG
AVA meeting
Opening of the Focus Group AVA and introductions
Approval of draft agenda and documentation allocation
Approval of second FG AVA meeting Report
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Agenda for today
Agenda 19 January 2012 (2 - CONTINUED)
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Overview of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
Working Group: ALL - Overview of inputs addressed to All WGs
•AVA-I-0056-
ITU Workshop on "Telecommunications Relay Services for Persons with
Disabilities", Geneva, Switzerland, 25 November 2011
•AVA-I-0059
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and decision of 20 October
2011 order overturning the 2006 “Anglers Order”
•AVA-I-0060
- Making Television Accessible: What is this report about and what is it
for?
•AVA-I-0061
- Making Television Accessible: Which viewers have difficulties
accessing television?
•AVA-I-0062
- Making Television Accessible: What can currently be done to make
audiovisual content more accessible? – the value proposition
•AVA-I-0063
- Making Television Accessible: Which access services can currently be
offered with television programmes?
- Making Television Accessible: Managing change – introducing and
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Agenda 19 January 2012 (3 - CONTINUED)
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Overview of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
- Making Television Accessible: Incentives and sanctions – what
mechanisms exist to promote access service provision?
•AVA-I-0069
•AVA-I-0070
- Making Television Accessible: Terminology and definitions for FG
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Working Group A:Captioning (Clyde Smith)
•AVA-I-0065
- Making Television Accessible: How are access services produced,
delivered and used?
(WGs A, B, C, D, E)
•AVA-I-0066
- Making Television Accessible: What does it cost to set up and run a
given access service for audiovisual content? (WGs A, B, C, D, E)
- Making Television Accessible: The market for accessibility − what
business models exist so that access services can be offered on a sustainable basis?
(WGs A, B, C)
•AVA-I-0067
•AVA-I-0080
- The eAccess project (the eAccessibility network) (Indra Software
Lab.)
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Agenda 19 January 2012 (4 - CONTINUED)
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Overview of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
•5.2
Working Group G: Digital Broadcast Television (Nick Tanton and Peter
Mølsted)
•AVA-I-0083-
Report from Working Group G “Digital Broadcast Television”
•AVA-I-0080
- The eAccess project (the eAccessibility network) (Indra Software Lab.)
(WGs: A, B, C, G)
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– 11:15 BREAK
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Agenda 19 January 2012 (5 - CONTINUED)
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Overview of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
•5.3
Working Group B: Audio/Video description and spoken captions
(Pilar Orero and Aline Remael)
•AVA-I-0085
- Report from Working Group B “Audio/Video description and spoken
captions”
•AVA-I-0075-
Audio Description and Audio Subtitling: Who Needs It? AD user
personas
•AVA-I-0065
- Making Television Accessible: How are access services produced,
delivered and used?
(WGs A, B, C, D, E)
•AVA-I-0066
- Making Television Accessible: What does it cost to set up and run a
given access service for audiovisual content? (WGs A, B, C, D, E)
- Making Television Accessible: The market for accessibility − what
business models exist so that access services can be offered on a sustainable basis?
(WGs A, B, C)
•AVA-I-0067
•AVA-I-0080
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- The eAccess project (the eAccessibility network) (Indra Software Lab.)
(WGs: A, B, C, G)
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Overview of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
•5.4
Working Group C: Visual signing and sign language (T. Ito)
•AVA-I-0072
– Report from Working Group C “Visual signing and sign language”
•AVA-I-0073
- Sign Language Animation Using TVML (NHK)
•AVA-I-0074
– ATLAS: Automatic Translation into sign LAnguageS (RAI)
•AVA-I-0065
- Making Television Accessible: How are access services produced,
delivered and used?
(WGs A, B, C, D, E)
•AVA-I-0066
- Making Television Accessible: What does it cost to set up and run a
given access service for audiovisual content? (WGs A, B, C, D, E)
- Making Television Accessible: The market for accessibility − what
business models exist so that access services can be offered on a sustainable basis?
(WG A, B, C)
•AVA-I-0067
•AVA-I-0080
- The eAccess project (the eAccessibility network) (Indra Software Lab.)
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(WGs: A, B, C, G)
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– 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
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Overview of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
•13:00
– 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
•Working
Group D: Emerging access services (David Wood and Takebumi
Itagaki)
•AVA-I-0076
-Technical characteristics of wireless aids for hearing impaired people
operating in the VHF and UHF frequency range (EHIMA)
•AVA-I-0058
- Incoming Liaison letter to ITU-T FG AVA from IEC TC 100 on
Wireless connections to hearing aids
•AVA-I-0081
- LS from JCA-AHF in reply to FG AVA LS no. 4 on wireless hearing
aid compatibility
- Making Television Accessible: Getting started – who needs to do what
so that the viewer can see television programs with access services? (WGs D and E)
•AVA-I-0064
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Agenda 19 January 2012 (8 - CONTINUED)
5Overview
of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
•AVA-I-0065
- Making Television Accessible: How are access services produced,
delivered and used?
(WGs A, B, C, D, E)
•AVA-I-0066
- Making Television Accessible: What does it cost to set up and run a
given access service for audiovisual content? (WGs A, B, C, D, E)
•Working
Group E:
Electronic Programming Guides and onair promotion (Peter Olaf
Looms)
- Report from Working Group E “Electronic Programming Guides and
on-air promotion”
•AVA-I-0084
- Making Television Accessible: Getting started – who needs to do what
so that the viewer can see television programs with access services? (WGs D and E)
•AVA-I-0064
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Agenda 19 January 2012 (9 - CONTINUED)
5Overview
of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
•AVA-I-0065
- Making Television Accessible: How are access services produced,
delivered and used?
(WGs A, B, C, D, E)
•AVA-I-0066
- Making Television Accessible: What does it cost to set up and run a
given access service for audiovisual content? (WGs A, B, C, D, E)
•Working
Group F: Participation and digital media (Pradipta Biswas)
•AVA-I-0079
- Report from Working Group F “Participation and digital media”
•5.8Working
Group I:
Mobile and handheld devices (Axel Leblois and John
Lee)
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Agenda 19 January 2012 (10 - CONTINUED)
5Overview
of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
•AVA-I-0065
- Making Television Accessible: How are access services produced,
delivered and used?
(WGs A, B, C, D, E)
•AVA-I-0066
- Making Television Accessible: What does it cost to set up and run a
given access service for audiovisual content? (WGs A, B, C, D, E)
•Working
Group F: Participation and digital media (Pradipta Biswas)
•AVA-I-0079
- Report from Working Group F “Participation and digital media”
•5.8Working
Group I:
Mobile and handheld devices (Axel Leblois and John
Lee)
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Agenda 19 January 2012 (11 - CONTINUED)
5Overview
of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
•5.9Working
Group K: Access of working procedures (Mia
Ahlgren and Marc Magennis)
•AVA-I-0082
procedures”
- Report from Working Group K “Access of working
•5.10 Working
Group H:
IPTV (Masahito Kawamori)
•5.11 Working
Group J:
Key Performance Indicators
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Agenda 19 January 2012 (12 - CONTINUED)
•Working
Groups sessions work
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Resources and finances of FG AVA
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Next FG AVA meetings and events:
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Liaison and dissemination
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Any other business
•10
Meeting Closing (aiming to finish by 17:00)
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Our road map - the process
Putting the pieces together
Share a vision
of media that
are truly accessible
Propose a roadmap
of actions
and metrics
to measure progress
Identify
actions that can
turn the vision
into reality
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