456 Berea Street
9th Nov 2006, 11:00 pm
Joe Clark, Web accessibility guru and the author of Building Accessible Websites (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/073571150X/456bereastree-20), is looking to start up a fairly large accessibility research project. The Open & Closed Project (http://openandclosed.org/) will do several things, each of them big enough to warrant a project of their own:
Write a set of standards for four fields of accessibility – captioning, audio description, subtitling and dubbing – as used in broadcasting and home video, at the movies, and on the Web
Develop training and certification programs
Work on a universal file format for the mentioned fields of accessibility
Design and test new fonts for captioning and subtitling That sounds like a lot of work, and it is. To raise money for this project, Joe needs your help. Starting today, he is asking for small donations (http://joeclark.org/micro/) to support him for four months while he works full-time on raising the larger amount of money needed for the actual project.
You can support Joe by donating (http://joeclark.org/micro/donate/), by spreading the word about this (blog it, digg it, talk about it), or by posting a banner ad (http://joeclark.org/micro/banners/) on your site.
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Write a set of standards for four fields of accessibility – captioning, audio description, subtitling and dubbing – as used in broadcasting and home video, at the movies, and on the Web
Develop training and certification programs
Work on a universal file format for the mentioned fields of accessibility
Design and test new fonts for captioning and subtitling That sounds like a lot of work, and it is. To raise money for this project, Joe needs your help. Starting today, he is asking for small donations (http://joeclark.org/micro/) to support him for four months while he works full-time on raising the larger amount of money needed for the actual project.
You can support Joe by donating (http://joeclark.org/micro/donate/), by spreading the word about this (blog it, digg it, talk about it), or by posting a banner ad (http://joeclark.org/micro/banners/) on your site.
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