- From: Chaals McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 02:34:36 +0300
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:40:08 +0300, Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL <ryladog@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeehaw!!!!!! Indeed! I note there is an open issue in HTML - if you have a transcript for a video, how should we attach it so you can find that instead? Is it useful to have a standard way of doing it, or should we just assume that you will understand however the developer decides to do it… cheers > * katie * > Katie Haritos-Shea > Senior Accessibility SME (WCAG/Section 508/ADA/AODA) > Cell: 703-371-5545 | ryladog@gmail.com | Oakton, VA | LinkedIn Profile | > Office: 703-371-5545 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shawn Henry [mailto:shawn@w3.org] > Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 3:46 PM > To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> > Subject: 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 > > > > --- > <http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/> > > > -- Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex chaals@yandex-team.ru - - - Find more at http://yandex.com
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