[Chapter-delegates] ITU Resolution 175- Resolution for the Rights of Disabled Persons

[Glenn McKnight]

In a  recent post  by  Joly McFie ( ISOC NY) to the  ICANN  Accessibility
Committee  he shared an Open Source tool to do captioning effectively on
Youtube videos  The  tool is  nomorecraptions(dot)com
Developed by Michael Lockery  a  profoundly deaf person

Source
https://medium.com/@mlockrey/nomorecraptions-dot-com-f3b3a7924fff

I have a stock of 34 short  videos on the ICANN ecospace  which I have done
and I will be trying out this tool to convert the videos to include
captioning

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHeYfhcpf4QSNbG72YSlHV67TeEKC_Ag0

We will be doing a  demo  on this tool  on the  ICANN  Technology Taskforce
 and  we will be providing a  summary report
Glenn


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On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Klaus Birkenbihl <Klaus.Birkenbihl at isoc.de>
wrote:

> Sofie Maddens wrote on 10.11.2014 08:05:
> > Yes, it was good to see such outcomes. Copying Nicolas and Karen.
> >
> > Sofie
>
> Indeed. After all the good news from ITUs I wonder about ourselves.
> Me and a few others made some noise wrt to accessibility issues on
> our own precious website back in 2011. Beside an article where
> we educate the world upon it (maybe it was read by the ITU folks
> ;-) ) not much follow-up.
>
> Various folks in management agreed that this topic should have
> more attention ... but neither did we introduce tools that would
> help us to track issues nor did I see much action except
> an external study that confirmed the issues and some announcements
> of plans. If there was a real plan or even fulfillment I missed it
> - or it was -modest guys we are- not communicated. (I admit I
> stopped polling the web site myself finding more or less
> the same issues again and again with no option to get them
> acknowledged or even fixed).
>
> But maybe with ITU as an example ...
>
> Lets dream on, Klaus
>
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> > On Nov 10, 2014, at 7:07 AM, Gunela Astbrink <g.astbrink at gsa.com.au>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > It's great to see that Andrea Saks continues to achieve much for
> accessibility for people with disability particularly in the ITU and IGF.
> >> >
> >> > Resolution 175 (revised in Busan) has a large number of actions for
> ITU to do or continue to do.
> >> >
> >> > One of these was the adoption of an ITU accessibility policy in 2013
> to work on its own internal practices to make them more accessible. These
> actions are outlined at:
> >> >
> http://www.itu.int/en/action/accessibility/Pages/makingITUaccessible.aspx
> >> > and are listed below:
> >> >        provide basic training in disability awareness for all staff;
> >> >        incorporate a reference to reasonable accommodation in
> registration forms and invitation letters to ITU events and conferences;
> >> >        assess the opportunity for improving the efficiency of ITU
> internal processes regarding the provision of captioning services;
> >> >        improving the accessibility of Word documents used in ITU
> meetings and conferences;
> >> >        defining an action plan for the provision of reasonable
> accommodation during PP14;
> >> >        organizing a side-event during PP14 to inform ITU Membership
> on the implementation of the ITU Accessibility Policy
> >> >        organizing a showcase-demos on specific areas related to
> accessibility;
> >> >        setting a process to systematically collect information on
> needs and preferences of meeting and conference participants concerning
> accessibility;
> >> >        inviting ITU Member States to allocate a budget line for the
> implementation of the Accessibility Policy in the Union's budget
> >> >        conducting an assessment of the level of accessibility of ITU
> recruitment process;
> >> >        adjusting ITU procurement processes to incorporate the
> accessibility requirements (focus on IT equipment);
> >> >        mainstreaming accessibility in ITU programmatic activities.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > These are practical actions. ITU also works on integrating
> accessibility in policy and general standards development.
> >> >
> >> > ICANN is also developing its accessibility practice through the
> At-Large Accessibility Taskforce.
> >> >
> >> > It's worthwhile revisiting ISOC's Accessibility Issues Paper and its
> suggested actions:
> >> >
> http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/internet-accessibility-internet-use-persons-disabilities-moving-forward
> >> >
> >> > The more people who highlight accessibility issues the better. We can
> all contribute to helping ISOC become a more accessible organisation and to
> work on integrating accessibility into policy and practice. While Chapters
> have a significant role to play in furthering accessibility, the Internet
> Society head office could provide significant leadership in this area.
> Disability awareness training is a good start....
> >> >
> >> > Gunela Astbrink
> >> > Director, ISOC Australia
> >> >
>
> --
> Klaus Birkenbihl
> http://www.klaus-birkenbihl.de
>
> --
> Klaus Birkenbihl
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> Internet Society German Chapter e.V. (ISOC.DE)
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