W3C to Receive Emmy ® Award 8 January in Las Vegas

Dear Media, Analysts and Friends of W3C,

We have very exciting news to share with you today that makes everyone associated with W3C, and especially those who do the difficult work of standards making, very proud.

This Friday, 8 January W3C will be honored with a 2016 Technology & Engineering Emmy ® Award for Timed Text Mark-up Language (TTML) standard that makes video content more accessible with text captioning and subtitles.

We have issued a press release at this link and have also provided a text version below:
http://www.w3.org/2016/01/emmyawardttml.html.en

W3C technical and business staff are in Las Vegas at CES all this week and available for interviews or meetings. Please send requests to: w3t-pr@w3.org. Thank you.

Kind regards,


Karen Myers
W3C Communications
Mobile: 1.978.502.6218


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 [1]W3C For immediate release

      [1] http://www.w3.org/

 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to Receive Emmy ® Award for Standards
           Work on Accessible Video Captioning and Subtitles

W3C Representatives to Accept Award 8 January 2016 during Consumer
Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas
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     [2]Translations | [3]W3C Press Release Archive
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      [2] http://www.w3.org/Press/Releases-2016#emmyawardttml
      [3] http://www.w3.org/Press/

   [4]Picture of the Emmy award statue

      [4] http://emmyonline.com/tech_67th_recipients

   5 January 2016 — The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the
   global standards organization that develops the foundational
   technologies for the Web, will receive a Technology &
   Engineering Emmy ® Award on 8 January, 2016 from [5]the
   National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) for
   W3C's work to make video content more accessible with text
   captioning and subtitles.

      [5] http://emmyonline.com/tech_67th_recipients

   For the category “Standardization and Pioneering Development of
   Non-Live Broadband Captioning,” the Emmy ® Award recognizes
   W3C’s [6]Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) standard that helps
   ensure that the needs of people with disabilities, particularly
   people who are deaf and hard of hearing, are addressed.  The
   NATAS awards event will take place at the Bellagio Hotel in Las
   Vegas, Nevada. W3C representatives, including members of the
   W3C Timed Text Working Group, will accept the Emmy ® Award
   statue. In addition to W3C, other honorees in this category are
   Home Box Office (HBO), Netflix, Telestream, and the Society of
   Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) who all use
   TTML.

      [6] http://www.w3.org/TR/ttaf1-dfxp/

   “W3C is thrilled to receive a 2016 Emmy ® Award in recognition
   of technologies that support an important part of our mission
   to bring the full potential of the World Wide Web to everyone,
   whatever their disability, culture, language, device or network
   infrastructure,” said W3C CEO Dr. Jeff Jaffe. “I would like to
   thank the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for
   their recognition of W3C, and I congratulate the members of the
   W3C Timed Text Working Group and the W3C Web Accessibility
   Initiative on this outstanding achievement.”

   Since its founding in 1994 by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee,
   W3C has been committed to the principles of an open,
   interoperable and accessible Web for everyone on any device.
   Producers of video content for the Web worldwide use W3C’s TTML
   to author captions and subtitles that make online videos
   accessible to millions of people.  For people who are deaf and
   hard of hearing, text captioning enables them to understand the
   audio portion of video content. Subtitles provide language
   translations for international audiences of the audio in video
   content.

   "Ensuring that all aspects of the Web are accessible to people
   with disabilities has been a priority focus of W3C and its Web
   Accessibility Initiative for nearly 20 years," said Judy
   Brewer, W3C [7]Web Accessibility Initiative Director. “We are
   proud to see the Emmy ® Awards recognize the TTML standard for
   its ability to bring captioning and subtitles of video content
   to millions of Web users around the globe.”

      [7] http://www.w3.org/WAI/

About Timed Text Markup Language (TTML)

   In recent years with the convergence of traditional media and
   the Web, more video content from television is coming to the
   Web, and the Web is now running on televisions. TTML helps to
   bridge these worlds.

   “Timed Text” is textual information that may be used directly
   as a distribution format for online captioning and subtitles,
   and as an interchange format among legacy distribution content
   formats. TTML is used for the purpose of authoring, transcoding
   and exchanging timed text information, and for delivering
   captions and subtitles to the Web, or more generally, the
   Internet. There is support of TTML in several players,
   including Web browser agents and authoring tools.

   “TTML is a superset that encompasses preceding captioning
   approaches. It supports the semantics of most closed caption
   files, with the addition of metadata, and it is based on XML, a
   well-understood Web technology,” explained Philippe Le Hegaret,
   W3C Interaction Domain Lead and staff contact for the W3C
   [8]Timed Text Working Group.

      [8] http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/

   The [9]TTML1.0 technology first became a W3C Recommendation
   (standard) in November 2010, following years of collaborative
   work first initiated by the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative
   W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative, with support from the
   National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research,
   and with television industry representatives.  Contributing
   authors of the TTML 1.0 specification included: Glenn Adams
   (then working for Samsung) now with SkyNav, Inc.; Mike Dolan,
   Invited Expert from SMPTE;  Geoff Freed, WGBH National Center
   for Accessible Media; Sean Hayes, Microsoft; Erik Hodge (then
   working for RealNetworks), currently with Asignio; David Kirby
   (deceased), formerly with the British Broadcasting Corporation
   (BBC); Thierry Michel, W3C; and David Singer, Apple.

      [9] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-ttaf1-dfxp-20101118/

Advancing New Features to TTML

   Since the publication of TTML 1.0, the W3C Timed Text Working
   Group (TTWG), currently co-chaired by Nigel Megitt (BBC) and
   David Singer (Apple) have continued to advance the capabilities
   for authoring and distribution of video captioning.

   TTML Profiles for Internet Media Subtitles and Captions 1.0
   (IMSC1), currently a [10]Candidate Recommendation, is intended
   to simplify TTML implementation and authoring by bringing
   together popular TTML profiles in use in the industry,
   including EBU-TT-D.  IMSC1 adds support for enhanced text
   padding, image subtitles and forced subtitles. The latter
   enables the common use case for including both captions for
   deaf and hard of hearing users, and translation of subtitles in
   a single document, allowing the user to choose whether to show
   just the translations, or both the translations and the
   captions. Pierre-Anthony Lemieux (supported by MovieLabs) is
   the editor of IMSC1.

     [10] http://www.w3.org/TR/ttml-imsc1/

   TTML2 is the next version of TTML, published as a [11]first
   public working draft in February 2015.  In addition to the
   features introduced in IMSC1 and generally refining TTML1
   features, it adds support for South-East Asian languages,
   enables stereoscopic 3D, and details the mapping to HTML and
   CSS. Glenn Adams (Skynav) is the editor of TTML2.

     [11] http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-ttml2-20150212/

Global Adoption of TTML

   Increasingly, TTML usage is being adopted internationally.  The
   [12]European Broadcasting Union (EBU) uses [13]EBU-TT based on
   TTML, and in Japan, the [14]Association of Radio Industries and
   Businesses (ARIB) uses ARIM-TTML. The Society of Motion Picture
   and Television Engineers (SMPTE) uses TML as the basis for
   [15]SMPTE-TT (ST-2052-1) and plans to use IMSC1 for its
   Interoperable Master Format (ST 2067-2).

     [12] http://www3.ebu.ch/home
     [13] https://tech.ebu.ch/groups/pdfxp
     [14] http://www.arib.or.jp/english/index.html
     [15] http://www.w3.org/ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7292145&filter=AND(p_Publication_Number:7292143)

   Following the enactment of the U.S. Federal Communications
   Commission’s (FCC) 21^st Century Communications and
   Accessibility Act (CVAA) in October 2010, the FCC designated
   SMPTE-TT as "safe harbor interchange and delivery format" for
   online captioning. W3C representatives Judy Brewer, Web
   Accessibility Initiative Director and Philippe Le Hegaret,
   Interaction Domain Lead, contributed as appointees to the
   "Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee (VPAAC) for
   online and Web-enabled content."

W3C Representatives Available to Meet at CES

   W3C technical and industry experts will be attending CES from 5
   to 9 January at suite #310 in the Westgate and are available by
   appointment for meetings to discuss W3C's work regarding TTML
   as well as many other standards activities W3C is doing in the
   Automotive, Digital Marketing, Digital Publishing,
   Entertainment, Web Payments, Web Security, and Web of Things
   areas. For appointments during CES, email:
   team-contact@w3.org.  After 9 January, contact J. Alan Bird,
   W3C Global Business Development Leader at abird@w3.org.

About the World Wide Web Consortium

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   consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and
   the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C
   primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web
   standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth
   and stewardship for the Web. Over 400 organizations are
   [16]Members of the Consortium.

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   W3C is jointly run by the [17]MIT Computer Science and
   Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the United
   States, the [18]European Research Consortium for Informatics
   and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France, [19]Keio
   University in Japan and [20]Beihang University in China. W3C
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   Finland; France; Germany and Austria; Greece; Hungary; India;
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