Presentations
NCAM staff give presentations and papers about our projects throughout the year. Check the list below for a list of what's new and what has been discussed lately.
2008
- The Digital Television Transition, or "I Want My (Accessible) DTV", Technology and Persons with Disabilities 2008 Conference, March 14, 2008 (PowerPoint slides, 2.8MB). Learn what works, what doesn't and what's still needed to bring an accessible wide-screen HDTV with functioning captioning and description into your living room.
- The Internet Captioning Forum: AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, WGBH Tackle Online Captioning, Technology and Persons with Disabilities 2008 Conference, March 13, 2008. The leading providers of Web-based video have joined with media access pioneer WGBH/NCAM to develop solutions that will increase the amount of captioned online video. For examples of on-line captioning and description, see Larry Goldberg's del.icio.us tags.
- Captioning Solutions for Handheld Media and Mobile Devices, Technology and Persons with Disabilities 2008 Conference, March 12, 2008 (PowerPoint slides, 2.8MB). Learn how this project will help make video content for cell phones, PDAs and other portable media players accessible to deaf viewers. Also see the access to mobile media homepage.
