ImAc-Novel resources for the broadcasting industry
The coordinators of the ImAc, EasyTV, Content4ALL and SIGN-HUB organized a workshop “Beyond Media and Convergence accessibility cluster: a European perspective on accessibility” in the frame of Accessibility Cluster as part of the Media Convergence and Social Media Concertation Meeting organized by the European Commission. The workshop was jointly organized by the coordinators of the … Continue reading “H2020 Accessibility Cluster Workshop 5th February 2019”
TED Conferences LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) based in US is a media organisation. It has generated and localised the concept of videos based on “ideas worth spreading” in a talk format. These talks are distributed online for free. A new talk on subtitles has been created by Svetlana Kouznetsova. The video explains how producers of … Continue reading “TED Conferences LLC”
The ITU-EC Forum for Europe on “Accessible Europe: ICT for ALL” is underway in Vienna, Austria, from 12 to 14 December 2018. This regional event for Europe is jointly organized by the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and European Commission (EC), and hosted by United Nations Vienna. https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Regional-Presence/Europe/Pages/Events/2018/AE/AccessibleEurope.aspx Accessible Europe is … Continue reading “ImAc booth and presentation at UN Viena at the ITU-EC Forum for Europe on “Accessible Europe: ICT for ALL””
Every year the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) organises a meeting of Access Services experts. The objective is to raise the most important questions during a plenary session which has become over the years, the meeting point for those working in accessibility services across EBU organizations. This event is a great opportunity to meet with other colleagues working in … Continue reading “ImAc at EBU Accessibility Expert 2018, Geneva SRT”
Audio-visual accessibility: a growing market Audio-visual accessibility services like subtitles, close caption, audio description or sign language are more and more necessary for people with a visual or hearing disability who want to fully enjoy access to media contents on TV or videos on the internet. For the time being, accessibility services concern at least … Continue reading “Accessibility boosts your whole audience engagement”
Immersive Acccessibility European project was presented at the UN agency ITU IRG-AVA Meeting (Intersector Rapporteur Group Audiovisual Media Accessibility) which studies topics related to audiovisual media accessibility and aims at developing draft Recommendations for “Access Systems” that can be used for all media delivery systems, including broadcast, cable, Internet, and IPTV. In this meeting Francesc … Continue reading “ImAc progress is presented in the UN agency ITU (International Communication Union)”
Immersive Accessibility (ImAc) project funded by the European Union’s Research and Innovation programme Horizon 2020 was presented at this year’s Languages & The Media conference in Berlin (October 3-5th 2018). The theme of this year’s Languages & The Media was “The Fourth Industrial Revolution – Reshaping Languages in the Media”. The conference examined various developments, innovations … Continue reading “IMAC at Languages & The Media 2018”
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) (https://www.iso.org/home.html) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (ISO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through ISO technical committees. Each member body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been established has the right to be represented on that … Continue reading “ImAc will be presented in ISO meeting 27-31 August 2018 in Okayama (Japan) – I2CAT & UAB”