WHAT IS DTV4All? DTV4All is a project funded by the European Commission, under the CIP ICT Policy Support Programme, to facilitate the provision of access services on digital television across the European Union. WHAT ARE ACCESS SERVICES? People who are hard of hearing or deaf need subtitles or deaf signing to be provided with television programmes if they are to fully appreciate its dialogue. People who are partially sighted or blind need audio description provided with a television programme if they are to fully appreciate the context of what they hear. Such services enable their users to access the storyline of a television programme so are known as access services. THE ETHOS OF DTV4All There are two basic scenarios for the provision of access services. In the first, those with impairments are expected to buy a suitable integrated digital television or a specialised digital television set-top box that can support the access services they want or have it provided by the public health system. In the second, society takes collective responsibility for inclusivity and ensures that set-top-boxes targeted at the general user can support core access services, especially given that certain improvements made for vulnerable groups can be beneficial to all users. DTV4All promotes inclusivity. OBJECTIVES OF DTV4ALL Offer and evaluate mature subtitling, audio description, audio subtitling and signing services in a minimum of four territories within the European Union for at least 12 months. Identify improvements to existing access services and ways of addressing the key technical, organisational and legal obstacles to the sustainable take-up of these services in the timeframe 2008-2010 throughout Europe. Identify and prioritise key emerging access services, and the devices and platforms needed to support them for the period 2010-2012 in terms of technological feasibility, perceived value to their intended users and business model viability. Make recommendations regarding mature and emerging access services to bodies representing stakeholders in the access service value chain on the basis of which these bodies can take appropriate action in relevant standardisation bodies.
Digital Television for All
DI GIOVANNI, ELENA
2008-01-01
Abstract
WHAT IS DTV4All? DTV4All is a project funded by the European Commission, under the CIP ICT Policy Support Programme, to facilitate the provision of access services on digital television across the European Union. WHAT ARE ACCESS SERVICES? People who are hard of hearing or deaf need subtitles or deaf signing to be provided with television programmes if they are to fully appreciate its dialogue. People who are partially sighted or blind need audio description provided with a television programme if they are to fully appreciate the context of what they hear. Such services enable their users to access the storyline of a television programme so are known as access services. THE ETHOS OF DTV4All There are two basic scenarios for the provision of access services. In the first, those with impairments are expected to buy a suitable integrated digital television or a specialised digital television set-top box that can support the access services they want or have it provided by the public health system. In the second, society takes collective responsibility for inclusivity and ensures that set-top-boxes targeted at the general user can support core access services, especially given that certain improvements made for vulnerable groups can be beneficial to all users. DTV4All promotes inclusivity. OBJECTIVES OF DTV4ALL Offer and evaluate mature subtitling, audio description, audio subtitling and signing services in a minimum of four territories within the European Union for at least 12 months. Identify improvements to existing access services and ways of addressing the key technical, organisational and legal obstacles to the sustainable take-up of these services in the timeframe 2008-2010 throughout Europe. Identify and prioritise key emerging access services, and the devices and platforms needed to support them for the period 2010-2012 in terms of technological feasibility, perceived value to their intended users and business model viability. Make recommendations regarding mature and emerging access services to bodies representing stakeholders in the access service value chain on the basis of which these bodies can take appropriate action in relevant standardisation bodies.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
