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1 International Telecommunication Union Making Television Accessible in Africa Peter Olaf Looms Chairman, ITU Focus Group on Audiovisual Media Accessibility Joint ITU/EBU Workshop “How Can We Reach the Media Have-Nots of the Developed and Developing Worlds?”
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Making Television Accessible in Africa
Peter Olaf Looms
Chairman, ITU Focus Group on Audiovisual Media Accessibility
Joint ITU/EBU Workshop “How Can We Reach the Media Have-Nots of the
Developed and Developing Worlds?”
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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 5
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What is the challenge?Finding solutions all can afford
25 dollars is a lot of money for some25 dollars is a lot of money for some6
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Example 1TV pictures we can’t see
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Barrier-Free Digital Television 25 May 2011 European Commission
Example 2Audio that is noisy
If we can do it for footballwe can do it for other programs, too.
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Barrier-Free Digital Television 25 May 2011 European Commission
Example 3Emergency 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 thespecification of broadcast television in
the main digital TV systems
Access Services for IPTV are “work in progress”.
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bird’s eye viewbird’s eye view
Getting the big picture of digital media accessibility
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Getting the big picture of digital media accessibility
Discussing media accessibility with practitioners and users
to identify obstacles and suggest solutions
Discussing media accessibility with practitioners and users
to identify obstacles and suggest solutions
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How can we move forward?By putting the pieces together
Identifyactions that canturn the vision
into reality
Have a clear view of the current situation
and key obstacles
Share a vision of media that
are truly accessible
Propose a roadmapof actions
and metrics to measure progress
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FG AVA Deliverables
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Barrier-Free Digital Television 25 May 2011 European Commission
Thank you!
Contact particulars
FG AVA website:http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/ava/Pages/default.aspx
FG AVA secretariat:
Alexandra Gaspari
Chairman:
Peter Olaf Looms
Ellesvinget 25
DK-2950 VedbækDENMARKE: [email protected]: +45 51 56 75 46 16
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Barrier-Free Digital Television 25 May 2011 European Commission
Thank you!
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What is the challenge?Finding solutions all can afford
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