In Europe three separate companies are introducing captioning or captioning and audio description to Italy and Spain through innovative devices.
The Scootle portal houses an increasing range of content from a variety of educational sources. From an accessibility standpoint, only some of the content is captioned and Scootle has put processes in place to include more captioned educational content in the future.
The staff at Able were formerly located in the studios of TVNZ, which owns TV One and TV2. However, as TV3 and FOUR are owned by another company, MediaWorks New Zealand, it was decided earlier this year to transfer them to an independent company. The CEO of Able, Wendy Youens, was formerly Access Services Manager at TVNZ.
The NER model was developed by Pablo Romero-Fresco of Roehampton University and Juan Martinez, a respeaking consultant. ‘Respeaking’ is the term used for a captioner repeating the dialogue of a TV program or other medium into a microphone, which is then turned into captions by text-to-speak software. In the NER Model, N stands for the number of words in the respoken text, E for ‘Edition’ errors introduced by the respeaker, and R for ‘Recognition’ errors caused by the software.
Highlighting the best use of technology to widen access to information, learning, collections and creativity for people in museums, libraries, archives and heritage, the award categories were updated in this significant anniversary year to acknowledge the role digital media plays in everyday society.
