The Olympic games opened in London last night the celebrations
began with an almighty bang and the United Kingdom came alight with excitement.
The BBC being responsible for the broadcast
and with being an organisation that is supported by the people of Great Britain
through a special licence fee agreement enforceable by law, you would have
thought that this great innovative organisation would have made the broadcast
accessible.
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| www.london2012.com |
Well sadly not according to Pesky people!
Pesky people are involved around the space in digital media where
“Disability meets Digital - campaigning to improve digital access for Disabled
and Deaf people”
~ Peskey People’s mission statement.
Accessibility on the web is an absolute discredit as the programming
talent is available to provide integrated accessible online services and yet at
this stage of online technological development, creators and producers of
online content still do not plan for the additional time needed to ensure accessibility
is met for their audience.
The larger technological companies are trying to support new techniques to
convert speech to text, like YouTube’s automatic captioning facility, but in a
recent blog by Pesky People on their website this type of approach isn't
working.
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| www.peskypeople.co.uk |
Pesky People's Blog: All the Bells – what happens when London 2012 fails to addsubtitles
Personally I think that we are engrained as a task based
society in the western world and that we forget that we also need to be responsible
for the content that we produce, and that responsibility should be planned into
the work pattern at the point of conception not simply injected at the end of a project.
**Tomorrow blog post will be a theoretical discussion on a
possible innovation to provide high quality subtitling to mainstream broadcasting
services using current and emerging technology.
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