Re: Captioning Re: Agenda for Silver meeting of Tuesday, 12 May 2020

Definitely +1, especially as we've had more than one person note difficulty
understanding speech on our calls this week alone. Thanks, Michael! And
thank you, Makoto, for raising this!

-Shawn

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:42 AM Jennifer Chadwick <jcha@siteimprove.com>
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> *From:* David Fazio <dfazio@helixopp.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:38 AM
> *To:* Dirks, Kim (TR Product) <kimberlee.dirks@thomsonreuters.com>
> *Cc:* Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>; Shawn Lauriat <lauriat@google.com>;
> Makoto Ueki <makoto.ueki@gmail.com>; Silver TF <public-silver@w3.org>;
> Jeanne Spellman <jspellman@spellmanconsulting.com>
> *Subject:* Re: Captioning Re: Agenda for Silver meeting of Tuesday, 12
> May 2020
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> +1 to Makoto and Kim. It would help for us cognitively impaired Also,
> which I am. If we need accessibility reasons I would be one of the
> disabilities it would benefit
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> Scribing is sporadic, not very well articulated summaries of speakers
> comments. I think it’s not very useful, for captioning purposes. I believe
> Janina mentioned a few months ago that zoom has a plugin for auto
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> On May 12, 2020, at 8:31 AM, Dirks, Kim (TR Product) <
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> Hi Michael,
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> I’m a big fan of captions and would like to see the W3C explore options to
> get them active. Also wondering if we could replace scribing with captions?
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> Thanks!
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> *From:* Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:25 AM
> *To:* Shawn Lauriat <lauriat@google.com>; Makoto Ueki <
> makoto.ueki@gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Silver TF <public-silver@w3.org>; Jeanne Spellman <
> jspellman@spellmanconsulting.com>
> *Subject:* Captioning Re: Agenda for Silver meeting of Tuesday, 12 May
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> Closed captioning is enabled in calls I have set up. It has to be turned
> on in a given call by the host (me, unless I find a way to designate
> someone else). Once enabled, we can assign someone in the call to enter
> captions, or enable a third party service. In the first case I do not know
> if participant-entered captions would be more meaningful than the IRC
> scribing we already do. For third party services, I do not know if W3C has
> contracts with existing services nor what the costs would be. W3C would do
> something about that if needed to support accessibility of a given call. I
> think the organization would be less likely to take on those costs for
> language comprehension support (unless clearly accessibility related),
> though if there is sufficient demand it's certainly something to consider.
> Michael
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> On 12/05/2020 9:28 a.m., Shawn Lauriat wrote:
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> I definitely support this, though I don't know how to set it up. Jeanne?
> Michael?
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> -Shawn
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> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:10 PM Makoto Ueki <makoto.ueki@gmail.com>
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> Shawn, Jeanne and Michael
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> I'm wondering if it is possible to use Zoom's "Closed Captioning" during
> our meetings. It will make it easier for those who don't speak English
> regularly (like me) to understand and follow discussions in English. And
> it'll allow web accessibility experts who are deaf or hard of hearing to
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> I've been thinking about this for many years. Now we just started using
> Zoom which has "Closed Captioning" functionality. Will it be possible??
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> 2020年5月12日(火) 0:00 Shawn Lauriat <lauriat@google.com>:
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> agenda+ Follow-up on action items from virtual face-to-face
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> agenda+ Check-in with subgroups
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> refer to the Guideline Checklist
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> agenda+ Decide on new migration guideline to work on
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> *New* tuesday call info
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> please note that we've moved to Zoom! We'll monitor IRC for any reports of
> issues, and we still have WebEx available as a fallback option if anyone
> does have trouble dialing in.
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