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 International Telecommunication Union

FG AVA: What are we aiming to do? October 2012 January 2012 International Telecommunication Union

FG AVA: Where are we now? What is the final deliverable? January 2012 International Telecommunication Union

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 International Telecommunication Union *UN CRPD = UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Accessibility = AV Media for All Listening Watching Sharing Participating Enjoying International Telecommunication Union Creating?

Which AV-Media? (Need to have or Nice to have?) International Telecommunication Union Source: The Economist Print Edition 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

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 12 2012

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 International Telecommunication Union

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 International Telecommunication Union

Our road map - the process Putting the pieces together Future Gap between vision and current situation Present International Telecommunication Union

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 International Telecommunication Union

FG AVA Deliverables International Telecommunication Union

FG AVA Meetings - plans in Sept 2011 International Telecommunication Union

FG AVA Meetings - revised plans International Telecommunication Union

FG AVA Meetings - revised plans Participants from stakeholders who really know what they are talking about International Telecommunication Union

FG AVA Meetings - revised plans Self-funded: Participants have limited or no resources for international travel International Telecommunication Union

FG AVA Meetings - revised plans 1. Focus on virtual communication in Working Groups International Telecommunication Union

FG AVA Meetings - revised plans 2. Working Groups working over two days using GetToWebinar to discuss and edit draft outputs. International Telecommunication Union

FG AVA Meetings - revised plans 3.Changed focus of international meetings: feedback on preliminary findings International Telecommunication Union

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 International Telecommunication Union

FG AVA Working Group Activities WG coordinators to identify interdependencies at regular meetings via Web International Telecommunication Union

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. International Telecommunication Union

Questions? FG AVA International Telecommunication Union

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 International Telecommunication Union

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-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? AVA-I-0068 - Making Television Accessible: Managing change – introducing and scaling up an access service International Telecommunication Union

Agenda for today Agenda 19 January 2012 (3 - CONTINUED) 5 Overview of inputs addressed to 11 Working Groups AVA-I-0069 - Making Television Accessible: Incentives and sanctions – what mechanisms exist to promote access service provision? AVA-I-0070 - Making Television Accessible: Terminology and definitions for FG AVA 5.1 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) AVA-I-0067 - 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-0080 - The eAccess project (the eAccessibility network) (Indra Software Lab.) (WGs: A, B, C, G) International Telecommunication Union

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-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) 10:45 – 11:15 BREAK International Telecommunication Union

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-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) AVA-I-0067 - 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-0080 - The eAccess project (the eAccessibility network) (Indra Software Lab.) (WGs: A, B, C, G) International Telecommunication Union

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-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) AVA-I-0067 - 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-0080 - The eAccess project (the eAccessibility network) (Indra Software Lab.) (WGs: A, B, C, G) 13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK International Telecommunication Union

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-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 AVA-I-0064 - 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) International Telecommunication Union

Agenda for today Agenda 19 January 2012 (8 - CONTINUED) Overview 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 on- air promotion (Peter Olaf Looms) AVA-I-0084 - Report from Working Group E “Electronic Programming Guides and on-air promotion” AVA-I-0064 - 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) International Telecommunication Union

Agenda for today Agenda 19 January 2012 (9 - CONTINUED) Overview 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” 5.8 Working Group I: Mobile and handheld devices (Axel Leblois and John Lee) International Telecommunication Union

Agenda for today Agenda 19 January 2012 (10 - CONTINUED) Overview 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” 5.8 Working Group I: Mobile and handheld devices (Axel Leblois and John Lee) International Telecommunication Union

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-0082 - 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 15:30 - 15:45 BREAK International Telecommunication Union

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) International Telecommunication Union

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 International Telecommunication Union