Re: Press clipping: [Broadcast] "Where is TV audio description heading in 2019?" [via Audio Description Community Group]

Additionally, I just noticed an AbilityNet report following their
TechSharePro event from last year at [1], at which I spoke by invitation.

[1]
https://www.abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/what-next-audio-description-tv-and
-advertising-techshare-pro-2018

Kind regards,

Nigel



On 01/02/2019, 09:49, "W3C Community Development Team"
<team-community-process@w3.org> wrote:

>On 31 January 2019, Claudia Cahalane, blogs editor and accessibility
>advocate of AbilityNet, wrote in Broadcast, in article "Where is TV audio
>description heading in 2019?":
>[...]It seems that on top of tech and financial challenges around growing
>AD across more platforms and services, broadcasters are grappling with
>how to create appealing, fitting and engaging AD scripts that slot
>between dialogue and sound within programmes.
>
>We heard that the formation of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
>Community Group on audio description last year is looking to address
>this. The group aims to release an open standard file format for AD by
>the end of this year, according to Nigel Megitt, executive product
>manager at the BBC and chair of the W3C group.
>
>The impetus, he said, is that ³Audio description is fantastic, but all
>the tools you use to make it are proprietary ­ there¹s no way to exchange
>information about the production of audio description.²
>
>Having some Œstandard tooling¹ to do this would make it cheaper and
>easier for more people to create AD, Meggitt told delegates at the
>Google-sponsored event.[...]
>
>
>
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>
>This post sent on Audio Description Community Group
>
>
>
>'Press clipping: [Broadcast] "Where is TV audio description heading in
>2019?"'
>
>https://www.w3.org/community/audio-description/2019/02/01/press-clipping-b
>roadcast-where-is-tv-audio-description-heading-in-2019/
>
>
>
>Learn more about the Audio Description Community Group:
>
>https://www.w3.org/community/audio-description
>
>



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Received on Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:50:06 UTC