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InternationalTelecommunicationUnion
Committed to connecting the worldITU/EBU Workshop Accessibility to Broadcasting and IPTV ACCESS for ALL, 23 – 24 November 2010
ITU-EBU Joint Workshop on Accessibility to Broadcasting and IPTV ACCESS for ALL
(In cooperation with the EU project DTV4All)Geneva, 23 – 24 November 2010
DTV accessibility in Digital Europeand outlook in future
Frank Kamperman,Digital Europe
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Towards accessible Digital TV• What? Broadcasting activities moving from analogue to
digital technologies
• Why? Digital TV delivers better quality, more choices to consumers and options for enhanced accessibility features
• When? Digital TV switchover already started and to be completed by 2012 for all of the European Union
• And? DTV presents opportunities as well as challenges / barriers that need to be overcome in concert with government, manufacturers and broadcasters
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Accessibility features of Digital TV• Programmes and TV sets with accessibility features allow anyone, regardless of
their abilities, to enjoy TV with everyone else
• Accessible navigation in TVs – on-screen menus, channel information and available services require "visual" interaction. They would need to be made to “speak” and as easy-to-understand as possible for people with sight, intellectual or reading disabilities, and for all.
• Accessibility services in programmes – for a better viewing experience TV sets and programs need to offer:
• Audio description - a narrative describing the action on the screen. Necessary for a person with a visual impairment, welcomed by anyone
• Subtitling and sign language interpretation - for hearing impaired and non-native speakers to enjoy TV programmes
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Accessible DTV: Cooperation• Cooperation between the Users and the Industry
(equipment manufacturers) facilitated by Digital Europe and EDF with the EC support
• National governments have a role (policy, regulation, awareness raising, switchover help schemes)
• The European Commission has a role (policy, regulation, awareness raising, funding for R&D)
• Content providers need to provide for the required signals, not only in a few European countries, e.g. Audio Description
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Accessible DTV: Cooperation Platform• A forum of Digital Europe Members, User Groups and
the EU Commission to openly identify, discuss and agree how to meet accessibility needs
• Result: Industry Self Commitment and industry action to make its products accessible to users
• Industry Self Commitment, signed by Microsoft, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, supported by Sony
• Television products according to self commitment entering the market from 2009; Achievement Report May 2010
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Self commitment: Some results• Audio Description, Key Beeps, and Accessibility Menus
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Self commitment and beyond• Self commitment covers DTV accessibility basics:
– User Documentation, Unpacking and Installation– Receiver User Interface issues, Remote Control– Receiver Functions (to improve accessibility of TV services)– Support for decoding/presentation of specific services
elements and information that can improve e-accessibility of TV services, i.e. Audio Description, Subtitling
• The self commitment also agrees on elaborating more advanced features, i.e. text-to-speech for DTV
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Text-to-Speech (TTS) Example
• Text appearing, e.g. service information or menus, on the screen will be spoken out loud
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Text-to-Speech (TTS)• Working on two specification documents:
– TTS functional specification -> Behavior of DTV with TTS attached
– TTS interface specification -> Connection of a TTS converter to a DTV
• High level agreement between Digital Europe (DE) and European Disability Forum (EDF)
• Documents ready for submission to formal standardization around end of this year
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Resolving barriers• No large market demand for accessible products and no
possibilities for manufacturers to initiate such demand. Can you help in creating market demand?
• Economy of scale is very important to drive down development costs and cost of technology itself. Therefore market fragmentation must be avoided. Perhaps by acknowledging agreements by EDF and DE?
• Technology for e.g. audio description is in place in receivers. How can the whole value chain, i.e. content providers and broadcasters, be stimulated to provide for accessible content?
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Conclusion• Successful cooperation manufacturers and interest groups
• First phase of cooperation (self commitment) already lead to real products in the market
• Support of Broadcasters required, i.e. for Audio Description
• Good progress on specifying advanced features (TTS)
• Market development and one EC market required
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The (bright) future: Hybrid TV
• Hybrid TV seamlessly connects linear and online services enabling user centric services
• User specific additions may enrich and personalize the service
• Personalized presentation of a specific service in principle possible
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Example HbbTV
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HybridTV• Would enable additional access to specific
accessibility services, e.g. an online version of the movie with audio description or sign language
• HybridTV service platforms come in place in the coming years
• Services may then be made just making use of the available platform
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Thank you!
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Questions
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