[NA-Discuss] [Alac-sc-outreach] [Capacity-Building-WG] ANNOUCEMENT - FY 16 At-Large Captioning Pilot Project to start in JAN 2016!

Carlton Samuels carlton.samuels at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 17:03:30 UTC 2015


+1.  A very worthwhile and timely uptick towards effective content
delivery.

Looking forward.

-Carlton


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On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 2:17 AM, Siranush Vardanyan <
siranush_vardanyan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Judith,
>
> First of all congratulations with the initiation of this project and the
> efforts put in this.
>
> As you know APRALO always supported this idea and we are very much looking
> forward to be involved in this project. I think that APRALO would like to
> pilot captioning of one or two webinars organized within the framework of
> APRALO-APAC HUB. We are planning to have another webinar during
> January-February period, and Silvia from staff is very much involved in the
> process. So, we can work with Silvia and APAC HUB staff to pilot this for
> one or two of our webinars.
>
> Once again congratulations
>
> Seasonal greetings from my side of the world as well to all of you.
>
> Best
>
> Siranush
>
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> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:10:21 +0000
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> Subject: [Capacity-Building-WG] ANNOUCEMENT - FY 16 At-Large Captioning
> Pilot Project to start in JAN 2016!
>
> 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
> <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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