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.
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.
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.
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.
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 in English.
Kind Regards,
Yeşim Nazlar
Dear All,
The
next EURALO Monthly Call is
scheduled for Tuesday, 17 January
2017 at 19:00 UTC for 60 minutes.
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