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Accessible Content in Digital Broadcast Environments: a Canadian perspective

This paper explores the efforts of Canada in making audiovisual media accessible for people with disabilities. It highlights the establishment of ITU-T Focus Group on Audiovisual Media Accessibility and the contribution of ISACC. The paper also discusses current Canadian activities, key industry trends, and future steps for ensuring accessibility in digital broadcast environments.

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Accessible Content in Digital Broadcast Environments: a Canadian perspective

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  1. Accessible Content in Digital Broadcast Environments: a Canadian perspective Beverley Milligan, ISACC 1

  2. Framework • May 2011 establishment of ITU-T Focus Group on Audiovisual Media Accessibility (FG AVA) under ITU-T Study Group 16 for the purpose of exploring ways and means to make audiovisual media accessible for persons with disabilities • ISACC contribution GSC16-PLEN-03proposes new text for GSC Resolution 27 to recognize, support, collaborate, promote and identify common interest in the FG AVA

  3. Highlight of Current Canadian Activities • Publication of Monitor 2: A Report on Accessibility in Canadian Broadcasting • Compulsory qualitative standards as conditions of broadcast licence underway • Compulsory quantitative standard as conditions of broadcast licence in effect • CRTC approved Broadcast Accessibility Fund

  4. Key Industry Trends • Positives: • Canada is taking a leadership role in development of accessibility standards and best practices for the provision of quantity and quality of digital content. • Internet providing opportunity to have cross disability dialogue, i.e. Access 2020 Coalition

  5. Key Industry Trends • Negatives: • Terrestrial DTV geographical silos which impact policy, i.e. manufacturing and the Canadian market • Contrast in regulated vs. un-regulated • Confusion between stakeholder and experts in committee development: difficult balance of competing objectives • Compliance

  6. Next Steps / Actions • Establish regional strategies, within an international framework for seamless distribution of accessible content over multiple platforms, i.e. DVB regions vs. ATSC, as well as potentially other wireless technologies • Manufacturing • DV digital distribution • Multiple wireless platforms and bandwidth

  7. Next Steps / Actions • Examine standards in the context of convergence of regulated and unregulated content distribution systems • Establish standards for monitoring and measurement based on Canada’s work to date • Move accessibility from “social good” to business practice

  8. Supplementary Slides

  9. Recent Publications • “Monitor 2: A Report on the Quantity of Accessible Content inCanadian Broadcasting in 2010” • “Descriptive Video Production, Presentation and Distribution Best Practices Guide” • Both of the above are published through Media Access Canada, MAC, at www.mediac.ca

  10. Regulatory References • Closed Captioning Standards, ISO/IEC 14496-10, ATSC A/72 and CEA-708 • Descriptive Video Digital Distribution ATSC PSIP A/65, AC-3 descriptor: PMT entry for Descriptive Video and data stream DV pointer to point to a separate audio stream • CRTC Public notice 2009-430: broadcasting and telecommunications

  11. DTV Broadcasting Systems

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