Re: W3C to Receive Emmy(R) for Work on Accessible Captioning

Great news, Congratulations team.


On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo <
coordina@sidar.org> wrote:

> Congratulations to all :-)
>
>
> Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo
> Directora General
> Fundación Sidar – Acceso Universal
> www.sidar.org
> email: emmanuelle@sidar.org
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> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Shawn Henry [mailto:shawn@w3.org]
> Enviado el: martes, 05 de enero de 2016 21:46
> Para: WAI Interest Group
> Asunto: W3C to Receive Emmy® for Work on Accessible Captioning
>
> Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,
>
> We wanted to share some exciting news: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
> will receive a Technology & Engineering Emmy ® Award for work on
> standardization and pioneering development of broadband captioning. W3C's
> Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) helps make video content more accessible
> to people with disabilities, particularly people who are deaf or hard of
> hearing, through text captioning.
>
> More info about the award and about TTML is available in a press release
> at:
>         <https://www.w3.org/2016/01/emmyawardttml.html.en>
>
> Making video content accessible is part of the mission of W3C's Web
> Accessibility Initiative (WAI), and WAI initiated the collaborative work on
> captioning in TTML. WAI's continuing work in this area includes recent
> updating of the Media Accessibility User Requirements at:
>         <http://www.w3.org/TR/media-accessibility-reqs/>
>
> An introduction to web accessibility is at:
>         <http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility>
>
> Thanks to everyone who contributes to accessibility work through W3C and
> WAI!
>
> Regards,
> Shawn Henry, WAI Outreach
> Judy Brewer, WAI Director
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> <http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/>
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Best Regards
Rakesh Paladugula
www.maxability.co.in