WEBCAST TODAY: #WSIS2020 Session 132 – How to engage the whole audience: innovation in media #accessibility #IRGAVA @ITU Masahito Kawamori @KeioGlobal Pradipta Biswas @Gates_Cambridge Andy Quested @BBC Giovanni Galvez @syncwords Pilar Orero @UABBarcelona @TRACTION_EU

livestreamOn Wednesday 15 July 2020 at 11:00-12:00 UTC the ITU Intersector Rapporteur Group Audiovisual Media Accessibility (IRG-AVA) hosts a WSIS Forum 2020 thematic workshop ‘Session 132 – How to engage the whole audience: innovation in media accessibility‘. This session will outline some of the recent thinking about how to enable media accessibility with current tools and ideas. As one of the use cases, AI machine translation of captioning will be demonstrated by SyncWords. This webcast is facilitated by the Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group (A11ySIG).

SPEAKERS
Pradipta Bitwas, Co-Chair, IRG-AVA
Andy Quested, BBC
Giovanni Galvez, VP, Business Development and Strategy, SyncWords
Masahito Kawamori, Co-Chair IRG-AVA
David Wood, Co-Chair, IRG-AVA
Pilar Orero, Professor, Univeritat Autònoma de Barcelona

LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/wsis2020-132 (open captions)

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REAL TIME TEXT https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=ITU-WSIS

TWITTER: #WSIS2020 #accessibility #IRGAVA
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