ATLAS II Recommendation 11

 

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Notes:

• Captioning technology review for conference calls (joint work between the two taskforces): https://community.icann.org/x/8xvxAg
• Prioritization from the primary objectives for the taskforce – including an identification of the key short, medium and long term opportunities: https://community.icann.org/x/EcXhAg
• The discussion has been furthered with key ICANN staff during the Accessibility Working Group meeting during ICANN 51: https://community.icann.org/x/kxvxAg

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Input from Technology Taskforce: 

• See ATLAS2 Recommendation 11
• (As per Rec 10) ICANN Language Services provides interpretation for for ALAC/At-Large F2F meetings and ALAC and for some RALO conference calls.
• However, they do not as of yet provide support for people with disabilities and special needs during working groups or conference calls.
• Evaluated Caption First which offers an Adobe Connect plugin for live scribing on two calls (as per Rec 10)
• A special budget request to conduct a pilot program to live caption 6 meetings/calls a month has been submitted to the FBSC which was approved by ICANN.
• The TTF also evaluated “Craptions to Captions”, an open source tool for captioning videos. See Technology Taskforce meeting 2015-01-26
• Also, the TTF looked at Amara, www.amara.org , a subtitle editor that makes it easy to caption and translate videos. Amara also hosts volunteer localization & accessibility communities.
• The TTF notes the progress of machine translation tools such as Skype Translator Preview and the already available Google Translate mobile app. The TTF has reviewed and documented these applications at the Translation Tools wiki page.
• The TTF is working with ICANN IT staff to have a new version of the machine translation tools used for the LACRALO English and Spanish mailing lists. See https://community.icann.org/x/z4VZAg
• Also beginning the process for testing captioning of all videos. Glenn McKnight will be demoing some of these at the next TTF call.

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