[Chapter-delegates] OECD seeking YouTube video: "How can the Internet make the world a better place?"
Arnoud van Wijk
vanwijk at isoc.org
Thu Jun 5 03:35:49 PDT 2008
Hi Mike,
Sorry for the late response. My email was out for 2 days. (ditto PC).
My goal is of course to make internet accessible for everyone. There should
be no difference in getting the information and services regardless you have
a hearing or visual disability or any other disability.
But due historical reasons, the focus of accessible websites is mainly for
Visual disabilities. I explained that in my letter of introduction at the
Chapters wiki disability
nexus(http://wiki.chapters.isoc.org/tiki-index.php?page=Disability) why and
how I see this.
Awareness for people with a hearing disability on websites is lacking right
now with the increasing use of video and audio e.g. YouTube, podcasts, call
back services via web etc.
And I am deaf, so I encounter the reduced access more and more every day.
And that is very frustrating. I hardly use YouTube. It is no fun except for
some rare subtitled video clip.
I am fully aware that we cannot change everything overnight. Podcasts for
example. They are targeted for people who can hear. I skip them. I do like
to see a transcript with some podcasts. But will I read all Podcasts? Not
really.
People who have a visual disability and want to follow YouTube, adding audio
description could support them.
The 2 above examples are what I surely like to happen in the future. The
question is to what level do the users with a disability want transcribed
podcasts or audio description on video clips?
We need to ask the users with disabilities to ask what they need to support
the access to websites and internet services.
>From my own experience and from users who are Deaf and hard of Hearing, the
biggest demand now is subtitles on all video, also those on internet sites
and YouTube. Because video is visual and important for users with a hearing
disability.
I'd love to get feedback from people with a visual disability how they like
the audio description on video clips. If it is implemented, will they use
it? If the answer is yes. Then we need to hurry on this as well.
The internet must be 100% accessible for everyone. But let start with the
biggest hurdles first and then continue from that.
Let have the users identify the biggest hurdles that needs to be taken care
of first.
Very basically:
Deaf/hard of Hearing: subtitled video and real-time text with VoIP and Video
over IP
Blind/reduced eyesight: easy navigation and full information on websites
with their assistive devices like read-aloud and Braille readers. And
correct use of colors/fonts to keep all text legible for all.
I know that there is more, that is why I said very basically.
And that means we all have a lot of work ahead of us :-)
I am very happy that I am able to do this work with ISOC. Very true to its
Motto:"The internet is for everyone", that does include people with a
disability.
You can even read that in the ISOC principles:
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/mission/principles/
No discrimination in use of the Internet on the basis of race, color,
gender, disability, language, religion, political or other opinion, national
or social origin, property, birth, or other status.
And I'd love it if you chapters let everybody know that internet is indeed
for everyone.
And I encourage you to seek contact with the local disability organizations
in your country/region. We can learn a lot from each other.
Arnoud
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Arnoud van Wijk
Disability Projects Coordinator
email: vanwijk at isoc.org
SIP (ToIP) vanwijk at sip.isoc.org
FAX +31412614000
Internet Society (ISOC) "The Internet is for everyone"
http://www.isoc.org
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Todd [mailto:miketodd at miketodd.com]
Sent: dinsdag 3 juni 2008 15:09
To: Arnoud van Wijk; borka at e5.ijs.si; Bill Graham
Cc: 'Chapter Delegates'
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates]OECD seeking YouTube video: "How can the
Internet make the world a better place?"
Through these discussions, let us not lose sight of Internet users who
are visually challenged. Someone who is totally blind has no visual
clues, feedback or indication of what is going on over the connection.
The real importance and advantages of properly using the Internet
technologies are that information may be shared using the full range
of interaction capabilities so that an Internet user who is challenged
in one or more ways of communicating may still be fully involved
because the intelligent designer realizes that any one or combination
of communication capabilities may be another persons only way to get
the "whole picture"...
Mike Todd
President, Mike Todd Associates - www.MikeTodd.com
Supporting the Digital Coast
President, Internet Society Los Angeles Chapter - www.ISOC-LA.org
mtodd at isoc-la.org
Founder, Digital Divide Task Force, www.ddtf.org (undergoing updates)
miketodd at ddtf.org
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University of Southern California
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To: "Arnoud van Wijk" <vanwijk at isoc.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates]OECD seeking YouTube video: "How can
the Internet make the world a better place?"
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> Hi,
> We here at IJS are producing the "Science" YouTube
> portal (videclips aligned to PPT slides).
> Currently the portal is with cca 3 000 titles
> (you can search them by word, event or by author).
> Please go and have a look at:
>
> "www.videolectures.net".
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> With regards,
>
> Borka
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