1. 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
FG-AVA
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2. FG AVA: What are we aiming to do?
October 2012
January 2012
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3. FG AVA: Where are we now? What is the final deliverable? January 2012
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4. 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.
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) accessibility.
*CRPD = UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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*UN CRPD = UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

5. Accessibility = AV Media for All
Listening Watching Sharing Participating
Enjoying
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Creating?

6. Which AV-Media? (Need to have or Nice to have?)
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Source: The Economist Print Edition December 10, 2011

7. Which AV-Media? How much is spent globally?
Forecast
Sources: The Economist Print Edition December 10, 2011;
IDATE Next Gen TV from World Television Markets January 2010

8. Which AV-Media? How many have access?
Approx. 20% of the global population have no electricity*
Mobile
statistics
will be added TV
Internet
Source: ITU Geneva November 2011
* Ban Ki-moon Powering sustainable energy for all International Herald Tribune
page 12 January

9. AV-Media ≈ Digital Media
From AVA-I-0003: Scoping the terms “audiovisual media” and “accessibility”
Platforms
(networks)
Digital
Broadcast
IPTV
Open Internet
Mobile &
Wireless Net
Digital
TV Receivers
PCs
Smartphones & Tablets
Peripherals
e.g. Remote Controls
Assistive Technologies
e.g.Hearing aids
Devices
TV & Radio
programs
Social Media
Films
Video games (?)
Content
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10. 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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11. Our road map - the process Putting the pieces together
Future
Gap between
vision and current
situation
Present
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12. Our road map - the process Putting the pieces together
Where do we want
AV Media to be?
Future
What roadmap
of actions
and metrics
do we recommend
to the ITU?
Gap between
vision and current
situation
What actions
can bridge
the gap?
Where are we now? What are the key obstacles?
Present
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13. FG AVA Deliverables
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14. FG AVA Meetings - plans in Sept 2011
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15. FG AVA Meetings - revised plans
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16. FG AVA Meetings - revised plans
Participants from stakeholders
who really know
what they are talking about
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17. FG AVA Meetings - revised plans
Self-funded: Participants
have limited or no resources
for international travel
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18. FG AVA Meetings - revised plans
1. Focus on
virtual communication
in Working Groups
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19. FG AVA Meetings - revised plans
2. Working Groups working over two days using GetToWebinar
to discuss and edit draft outputs.
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20. FG AVA Meetings - revised plans
3.Changed focus of
international meetings:
feedback on preliminary findings
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21. 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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22. FG AVA Working Group Activities
WG coordinators
to identify
interdependencies
at regular
meetings via Web
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23. FG AVA Working Group - logistics
Joining a Working Group: Contact the secretariat to get access to the group at
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, 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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24. Questions? FG
AVA
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25. Agenda for today
Welcome note by Dr Maria José Recoder, Vice-Rector of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB
1 Opening of the Focus Group AVA and introductions
AVA-I-0086 – Presentation of the ITU-T Focus Group AVA Meeting no. 3:  19 January 2012, Barcelona, Spain
2 Approval of draft agenda and documentation allocation
AVA-I-0055r1 - Meeting Agenda – Third FG Audiovisual Media Accessibility
3 Approval of second FG AVA meeting Report
AVA-O-0002 Report of the second FG AVA meeting (Geneva, 15 September 2011)
4 Review of progress on Logistics and infrastructure for the work of the FG and its Working Groups since second FG AVA meeting
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26. Agenda for today Agenda 19 January 2012 (2 - CONTINUED)
5 Overview of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups Working Group: ALL - Overview of inputs addressed to All WGs
AVA-I ITU Workshop on "Telecommunications Relay Services for Persons with Disabilities", Geneva, Switzerland, 25 November 2011
AVA-I Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and decision of 20 October order overturning the 2006 “Anglers Order”
AVA-I Making Television Accessible: What is this report about and what is it for?
AVA-I Making Television Accessible: Which viewers have difficulties accessing television?
AVA-I Making Television Accessible: What can currently be done to make audiovisual content more accessible? – the value proposition
AVA-I Making Television Accessible: Which access services can currently be offered with television programmes?
AVA-I Making Television Accessible: Managing change – introducing and scaling up an access service
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27. Agenda for today Agenda 19 January 2012 (3 - CONTINUED)
5 Overview of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
AVA-I Making Television Accessible: Incentives and sanctions – what mechanisms exist to promote access service provision?
AVA-I Making Television Accessible: Terminology and definitions for FG AVA
5.1 Working Group A:Captioning (Clyde Smith)
AVA-I Making Television Accessible: How are access services produced, delivered and used? (WGs A, B, C, D, E)
AVA-I 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)
AVA-I 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 The eAccess project (the eAccessibility network) (Indra Software Lab.) (WGs: A, B, C, G)
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28. Agenda for today Agenda 19 January 2012 (4 - CONTINUED)
5 Overview of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
5.2 Working Group G: Digital Broadcast Television (Nick Tanton and Peter Mølsted)
AVA-I Report from Working Group G “Digital Broadcast Television”
AVA-I The eAccess project (the eAccessibility network) (Indra Software Lab.) (WGs: A, B, C, G)
10:45 – 11:15 BREAK
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29. Agenda for today Agenda 19 January 2012 (5 - CONTINUED)
5 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 Report from Working Group B “Audio/Video description and spoken captions”
AVA-I Audio Description and Audio Subtitling: Who Needs It? AD user personas
AVA-I Making Television Accessible: How are access services produced, delivered and used? (WGs A, B, C, D, E)
AVA-I 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)
AVA-I 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 The eAccess project (the eAccessibility network) (Indra Software Lab.) (WGs: A, B, C, G)
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30. Agenda for today Agenda 19 January 2012 (6 - CONTINUED)
5 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 Sign Language Animation Using TVML (NHK)
AVA-I-0074 – ATLAS: Automatic Translation into sign LAnguageS (RAI)
AVA-I Making Television Accessible: How are access services produced, delivered and used? (WGs A, B, C, D, E)
AVA-I 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)
AVA-I 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 The eAccess project (the eAccessibility network) (Indra Software Lab.) (WGs: A, B, C, G)
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
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31. Agenda for today Agenda 19 January 2012 (7 - CONTINUED)
5 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 Technical characteristics of wireless aids for hearing impaired people operating in the VHF and UHF frequency range (EHIMA)
AVA-I Incoming Liaison letter to ITU-T FG AVA from IEC TC 100 on Wireless connections to hearing aids
AVA-I LS from JCA-AHF in reply to FG AVA LS no. 4 on wireless hearing aid compatibility
AVA-I 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)
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32. Agenda for today Agenda 19 January 2012 (8 - CONTINUED)
Overview of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
AVA-I Making Television Accessible: How are access services produced, delivered and used? (WGs A, B, C, D, E)
AVA-I 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 on- air promotion (Peter Olaf Looms)
AVA-I Report from Working Group E “Electronic Programming Guides and on-air promotion”
AVA-I 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)
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33. Agenda for today Agenda 19 January 2012 (9 - CONTINUED)
Overview of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
AVA-I Making Television Accessible: How are access services produced, delivered and used? (WGs A, B, C, D, E)
AVA-I 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 Report from Working Group F “Participation and digital media”
5.8 Working Group I: Mobile and handheld devices (Axel Leblois and John Lee)
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34. Agenda for today Agenda 19 January 2012 (10 - CONTINUED)
Overview of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
AVA-I Making Television Accessible: How are access services produced, delivered and used? (WGs A, B, C, D, E)
AVA-I 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 Report from Working Group F “Participation and digital media”
5.8 Working Group I: Mobile and handheld devices (Axel Leblois and John Lee)
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35. Agenda for today Agenda 19 January 2012 (11 - CONTINUED)
Overview of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups
5.9 Working Group K: Access of working procedures (Mia Ahlgren and Marc Magennis)
AVA-I Report from Working Group K “Access of working procedures”
5.10 Working Group H: IPTV (Masahito Kawamori)
5.11 Working Group J: Key Performance Indicators
15: :45 BREAK
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36. Agenda for today Agenda 19 January 2012 (12 - CONTINUED)
Working Groups sessions work
6 Resources and finances of FG AVA
7 Next FG AVA meetings and events:
8 Liaison and dissemination
9 Any other business
10 Meeting Closing (aiming to finish by 17:00)
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37. 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
Have a clear view of
the current situation and key obstacles
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