[EURO-Discuss] LIVE CAPTIONING AVAILABLE!!!! - Meeting Invitation: EURALO Monthly Call on Tuesday, 17 January 2017 at 19:00 UTC

Fri Jan 13 07:56:44 UTC 2017

Hello all,

more information on Captioning (for our next EURALO call) from Judith
Hellerstein, who is leading the captioning project.
Best,

Olivier

On 13/01/2017 05:54, Judith Hellerstein wrote:
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> Our goal in this continuation of the pilot is to provide real-time
> captioning for either 3 RALO meetings a month or 2 RALO and 1 ALAC
> meeting, and/or 3 working group meetings or webinars a month to enable
> full participation of all At-Large Users within ICANN. We also want to
> raise awareness of the importance of including captioning whenever
> language support is offered. We are targeting RALO meetings since our
> goal is to increase engagement in ICANN within each of the respective
> regions. We are also targeting the working groups and webinars for the
> same reason as well as to promote more engagement from RALOs in these
> working groups. We think this will lead to more effective
> participation and engagement within ICANN. This is especially the case
> for people who are coming from bandwidth challenged countries where
> lack of bandwidth has limited their participation within ICANN. Adobe
> Connect is a large user of bandwidth and as such makes it difficult
> for those with limited bandwidth to fully participate. Adigo calls are
> helpful in that regard, but often in many places cell coverage is
> sparse and calls often drop or use up too much of a person’s quota.
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> The goal of the pilot is to gather the necessary metrics to illustrate
> the need for captioning not only for accessibility reasons but also
> for those with limited bandwidth. The data gained from this second
> phase of the pilot should help us meet these goals and show the need
> for captioning ICANN wide.
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> In the original phase of the pilot we restricted ourselves to only
> providing English Language captions, but in this second phase we want
> to add support for Spanish and/or French as we have gotten requests
> for captioning in this language.
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>  
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> Having the captions available in English, Spanish, or French also
> helps people in the ICANN community whose first language is not one of
> these three languages, as most people can read English, Spanish, or
> French even if they cannot speak or understand. Also users who have
> limited bandwidth and have difficulty in loading and using the adobe
> connect application and participating in the meeting will have an
> easier time engaging and participating in the groups if they could
> read what is happening.
>

On 10/01/2017 12:27, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> yes indeed -- this is going to be one of the captioning tests which
> the ALAC has secured funding for. Captioning is helpful for people who
> are not native English speakers, and can help with understanding
> people who speak quickly. It is interesting to see how many people at
> ICANN meetings read the captioning screen during sessions. Please
> participate and let us know after the call if the captioning was
> helpful or not.
> Kindest regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> On 10/01/2017 11:17, Yesim Nazlar wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Apologies for the inconvenience. The captioning will be provided
>> inEnglish.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Yeşim Nazlar
>>
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>>         ***Live Captioning will be provided on this call in English.
>>         If you do not have the bandwidth to join the call, the live
>>         Captioning streaming is available via this link: 
>>         <http://www.atlarge.icann.org/teleconference-participation-en>https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=ICANN
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>> Dear All,
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>>  The next *EURALO Monthly Call* is scheduled for *Tuesday, 17 January
>> 2017 at 19:00 UTC*for 60 minutes.
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>> The agenda (to be updated) and call details are available
>> at: *https://community.icann.org/x/u7LDAw*
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>> Adobe Connect Room: *https://participate.icann.org/euralo/*
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>> Conference ID:
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>> English: 1638
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>> Dial-in numbers:  http://adigo.com/icann/
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>> EURALO Work space:https://community.icann.org/x/K5Qi
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>> If you require a dial-out please contact At-Large staff
>> at: staff at atlarge.icann.org
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>> Thank you.
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