[EURO-Discuss] [ALAC-Internal] ANNOUCEMENT - FY 16 At-Large Captioning Pilot Project to start in JAN 2016!

Rinalia Abdul Rahim rinalia.abdulrahim at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 08:39:44 UTC 2015


What a wonderful project to enhance accessibility and engagement!
Congratulations to Judith and all parties involved!

Best regards,

Rinalia
On Dec 18, 2015 2:11 AM, "ICANN At-Large Staff" <staff at atlarge.icann.org>
wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> On behalf of Judith Hellerstein, At-Large Captioning Pilot Project group
> lead and NARALO's Secretary, we are pleased to announce that the FY 16
> At-Large Captioning Pilot Project<
> https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+FY16+Special+Budget+Request+for+a+Pilot+program+for+real+time+captioning+of+Adobe+Connect+Workspace>
> will start in January 2016.
>
> The captioning will be provided by "Caption First Incorporated".
>
> As agreed to by the At-Large Captioning Pilot Project group, the
> implementation of this project will be structured as follows:
>
>
>   *   Three calls to include captioning each month for a total of 9
> teleconferences, not exceeding 60 minutes per call (with the exception of
> the ALAC Monthly Meeting)
>   *   The calls shall be held between January - April 2016.
>   *   During the first pilot phase of this captioning project the language
> used will be English.
>   *   In order to select the calls the captioning team has developed a set
> of criteria to evaluate and rate the requests. The request for captioning
> must meet at least one of these criteria to be put on the list.
>
> Criteria for Captioning:
>
> 1) Are there persons with disabilities or with limited bandwidth
> participating?
> 2) Are there webinars of general interest to the ICANN community that
> would increase the engagement of non-native English speakers?
> 3) Are the meetings or discussions about accessible tools or software?
>
> If you would like to have a teleconference captioned during this pilot
> phase please submit your request to At-Large Staff<mailto:
> staff at atlarge.icann.org> by January 15th.
>
>
>   *   The At-Large Captioning Pilot Project group, in collaboration with
> At-Large Staff, will select the calls that will have captioning based on
> the criteria noted above.
>
>   *   A short poll will be made at the end of each call where captioning
> is used to ask for feedback on the captioning program during that call.
>
> See further details Wiki: At-Large Captioning Pilot Project<
> https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+Captioning+Pilot+Project
> >.
>
> Thank you for your support in the planning and implementation of this
> exciting project.
>
> Kind regards
> Judith Hellerstein
>
> At-Large Captioning Pilot Project group lead and
> NARALO Secretary
>
>
> Thank you!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie
> Peregrine, Terri Agnew and Yesim Nazlar
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