[x3d-public] Fwd: W3C to be honored with Emmy ® Award for Standards Work on Accessible Video Captioning and Subtitles [Press release]
Don Brutzman
brutzman at nps.edu
Mon Feb 1 23:23:24 PST 2016
[This is so unusual - an interoperable technology standard getting an Emmy Award! Accessibility is always important.]
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Subject: W3C to be honored with Emmy ® Award for Standards Work on Accessible Video Captioning and Subtitles [Press release]
Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 19:27:20 +0000
Resent-From: w3c-ac-members at w3.org
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 09:27:11 -1000
From: Coralie Mercier <coralie at w3.org>
Organization: W3C
To: w3c-ac-forum at w3.org
CC: member-tt at w3.org
Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
Timed Text Working Group participants,
We have very exciting news to share with you today that makes everyone
associated with W3C, and especially those who do the difficult work of
standards making, very proud.
This Friday, 8 January W3C will be honored with a 2016 Technology &
Engineering Emmy ® Award for Timed Text Mark-up Language (TTML) that makes
video content more accessible with text captioning and subtitles. Philippe
Le Hegaret, Interaction Domain Lead, will accept the Emmy ® statue on
behalf of W3C and the TTML WG at the awards event at the Bellagio Hotel in
Las Vegas on Friday. We have issued a press release announcement today [0].
We invite all W3C members to send congratulatory messages or testimonials
regarding the W3C Emmy ® Award to the Communications Team by this Friday,
12:00pm EST so that we can add them to the press release and send out with
a photo after the event the evening of 8 January. Please share them via
<w3t-pr at w3.org>.
To the TTML Working Group and the Web Accessibility Initiative, our hearty
congratulations on this outstanding recognition. We also congratulate W3C
members HBO and Netflix who are also being honored in this category for
their use of TTML.
Best regards,
Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Marketing & Communications
[0] http://www.w3.org/2016/01/emmyawardttml.html.en
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[1]W3C For immediate release
[1] http://www.w3.org/
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to Receive Emmy ® Award for Standards
Work on Accessible Video Captioning and Subtitles
W3C Representatives to Accept Award 8 January 2016 during Consumer
Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas
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[2]Translations | [3]W3C Press Release Archive
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[2] http://www.w3.org/Press/Releases-2016#emmyawardttml
[3] http://www.w3.org/Press/
[4]Picture of the Emmy award statue
[4] http://emmyonline.com/tech_67th_recipients
5 January 2016 — The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the
global standards organization that develops the foundational
technologies for the Web, will receive a Technology &
Engineering Emmy ® Award on 8 January, 2016 from [5]the
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) for
W3C's work to make video content more accessible with text
captioning and subtitles.
[5] http://emmyonline.com/tech_67th_recipients
For the category “Standardization and Pioneering Development of
Non-Live Broadband Captioning,” the Emmy ® Award recognizes
W3C’s [6]Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) standard that helps
ensure that the needs of people with disabilities, particularly
people who are deaf and hard of hearing, are addressed. The
NATAS awards event will take place at the Bellagio Hotel in Las
Vegas, Nevada. W3C representatives, including members of the
W3C Timed Text Working Group, will accept the Emmy ® Award
statue. In addition to W3C, other honorees in this category are
Home Box Office (HBO), Netflix, Telestream, and the Society of
Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) who all use
TTML.
[6] http://www.w3.org/TR/ttaf1-dfxp/
“W3C is thrilled to receive a 2016 Emmy ® Award in recognition
of technologies that support an important part of our mission
to bring the full potential of the World Wide Web to everyone,
whatever their disability, culture, language, device or network
infrastructure,” said W3C CEO Dr. Jeff Jaffe. “I would like to
thank the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for
their recognition of W3C, and I congratulate the members of the
W3C Timed Text Working Group and the W3C Web Accessibility
Initiative on this outstanding achievement.”
Since its founding in 1994 by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee,
W3C has been committed to the principles of an open,
interoperable and accessible Web for everyone on any device.
Producers of video content for the Web worldwide use W3C’s TTML
to author captions and subtitles that make online videos
accessible to millions of people. For people who are deaf and
hard of hearing, text captioning enables them to understand the
audio portion of video content. Subtitles provide language
translations for international audiences of the audio in video
content.
"Ensuring that all aspects of the Web are accessible to people
with disabilities has been a priority focus of W3C and its Web
Accessibility Initiative for nearly 20 years," said Judy
Brewer, W3C [7]Web Accessibility Initiative Director. “We are
proud to see the Emmy ® Awards recognize the TTML standard for
its ability to bring captioning and subtitles of video content
to millions of Web users around the globe.”
[7] http://www.w3.org/WAI/
About Timed Text Markup Language (TTML)
In recent years with the convergence of traditional media and
the Web, more video content from television is coming to the
Web, and the Web is now running on televisions. TTML helps to
bridge these worlds.
“Timed Text” is textual information that may be used directly
as a distribution format for online captioning and subtitles,
and as an interchange format among legacy distribution content
formats. TTML is used for the purpose of authoring, transcoding
and exchanging timed text information, and for delivering
captions and subtitles to the Web, or more generally, the
Internet. There is support of TTML in several players,
including Web browser agents and authoring tools.
“TTML is a superset that encompasses preceding captioning
approaches. It supports the semantics of most closed caption
files, with the addition of metadata, and it is based on XML, a
well-understood Web technology,” explained Philippe Le Hegaret,
W3C Interaction Domain Lead and staff contact for the W3C
[8]Timed Text Working Group.
[8] http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/
The [9]TTML1.0 technology first became a W3C Recommendation
(standard) in November 2010, following years of collaborative
work first initiated by the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative
W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative, with support from the
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research,
and with television industry representatives. Contributing
authors of the TTML 1.0 specification included: Glenn Adams
(then working for Samsung) now with SkyNav, Inc.; Mike Dolan,
Invited Expert from SMPTE; Geoff Freed, WGBH National Center
for Accessible Media; Sean Hayes, Microsoft; Erik Hodge (then
working for RealNetworks), currently with Asignio; David Kirby
(deceased), formerly with the British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC); Thierry Michel, W3C; and David Singer, Apple.
[9] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-ttaf1-dfxp-20101118/
Advancing New Features to TTML
Since the publication of TTML 1.0, the W3C Timed Text Working
Group (TTWG), currently co-chaired by Nigel Megitt (BBC) and
David Singer (Apple) have continued to advance the capabilities
for authoring and distribution of video captioning.
TTML Profiles for Internet Media Subtitles and Captions 1.0
(IMSC1), currently a [10]Candidate Recommendation, is intended
to simplify TTML implementation and authoring by bringing
together popular TTML profiles in use in the industry,
including EBU-TT-D. IMSC1 adds support for enhanced text
padding, image subtitles and forced subtitles. The latter
enables the common use case for including both captions for
deaf and hard of hearing users, and translation of subtitles in
a single document, allowing the user to choose whether to show
just the translations, or both the translations and the
captions. Pierre-Anthony Lemieux (supported by MovieLabs) is
the editor of IMSC1.
[10] http://www.w3.org/TR/ttml-imsc1/
TTML2 is the next version of TTML, published as a [11]first
public working draft in February 2015. In addition to the
features introduced in IMSC1 and generally refining TTML1
features, it adds support for South-East Asian languages,
enables stereoscopic 3D, and details the mapping to HTML and
CSS. Glenn Adams (Skynav) is the editor of TTML2.
[11] http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-ttml2-20150212/
Global Adoption of TTML
Increasingly, TTML usage is being adopted internationally. The
[12]European Broadcasting Union (EBU) uses [13]EBU-TT based on
TTML, and in Japan, the [14]Association of Radio Industries and
Businesses (ARIB) uses ARIM-TTML. The Society of Motion Picture
and Television Engineers (SMPTE) uses TML as the basis for
[15]SMPTE-TT (ST-2052-1) and plans to use IMSC1 for its
Interoperable Master Format (ST 2067-2).
[12] http://www3.ebu.ch/home
[13] https://tech.ebu.ch/groups/pdfxp
[14] http://www.arib.or.jp/english/index.html
[15]
http://www.w3.org/ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7292145&filter=AND(p_Publication_Number:7292143)
Following the enactment of the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission’s (FCC) 21^st Century Communications and
Accessibility Act (CVAA) in October 2010, the FCC designated
SMPTE-TT as "safe harbor interchange and delivery format" for
online captioning. W3C representatives Judy Brewer, Web
Accessibility Initiative Director and Philippe Le Hegaret,
Interaction Domain Lead, contributed as appointees to the
"Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee (VPAAC) for
online and Web-enabled content."
W3C Representatives Available to Meet at CES
W3C technical and industry experts will be attending CES from 5
to 9 January at suite #310 in the Westgate and are available by
appointment for meetings to discuss W3C's work regarding TTML
as well as many other standards activities W3C is doing in the
Automotive, Digital Marketing, Digital Publishing,
Entertainment, Web Payments, Web Security, and Web of Things
areas. For appointments during CES, email:
team-contact at w3.org. After 9 January, contact J. Alan Bird,
W3C Global Business Development Leader at abird at w3.org.
About the World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international
consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and
the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C
primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web
standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth
and stewardship for the Web. Over 400 organizations are
[16]Members of the Consortium.
[16] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
W3C is jointly run by the [17]MIT Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the United
States, the [18]European Research Consortium for Informatics
and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France, [19]Keio
University in Japan and [20]Beihang University in China. W3C
has Offices in Australia; the Benelux countries; Brazil;
Finland; France; Germany and Austria; Greece; Hungary; India;
Italy; Korea; Morocco; Russia; Southern Africa; Spain; Sweden;
and the United Kingdom and Ireland. For more information see
[21]http://www.w3.org/
[17] http://www.csail.mit.edu/
[18] http://www.ercim.eu/
[19] http://www.keio.ac.jp/
[20] http://ev.buaa.edu.cn/
[21] http://www.w3.org/
Media Contact
Karen Myers, W3C <[22]w3t-pr at w3.org>
Mobile: 1.978.502.6218
[22] mailto:w3t-pr at w3.org
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Coralie Mercier - W3C Marketing & Communications - http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie at w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/
all the best, Don
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