- From: Priti Rohra <priti.rohra@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 11:48:25 +0530
- To: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
- Cc: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
This is great news, Congratulations!! Thanks for sharing Shawn. Regards, Priti Rohra On 1/6/16, Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org> wrote: > 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 > > > > --- > <http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/> > >
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