HBB4ALL Access Services for All Final Deliverables 2016: Evaluation and Recommendations The main objective of the HBB4ALL project is to improve media accessibility for all citizens in the connected TV environment. The project addresses the needs of all citizens, but especially th … | Continue reading
HBB4ALL Access Services for All Deliverables 2015: Solution Integration and Trials The main objective of the HBB4ALL project is to improve media accessibility for all citizens in the connected TV environment. The project addresses the needs of all citizens, but especially those u … | Continue reading
HBB4ALL Access Services for All Deliverables 2014: Operational and Technical phases The main objective of the HBB4ALL project is to improve media accessibility for all citizens in the connected TV environment. The project addresses the needs of all citizens, but especially those … | Continue reading
HBB4ALL results presented at NEM Summit 2016 by Pilar Orero, UAB The 9th edition of the NEM Summit held at Porto, Portugal, on 23-25 November 2016 at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. During 2 days, the conference was organised arround the theme of “Driving the Futur … | Continue reading
HBB4ALL results presented at NEM Summit 2016 by Pilar Orero, UAB The 9th edition of the NEM Summit held at Porto, Portugal, on 23-25 November 2016 at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. During 2 days, the conference was organised arround the theme of “Driving the Futur … | Continue reading
The Spanish National Museum of Science and Technology invited the HBB4ALL project to present its achievements The SNMOST exhibition addresses the importance of research carried out in universities for the improvement of the citizens quality of life and its development, the societ … | Continue reading
CCMA publish its HbbTV Subtitling Software as Open Source Press Release September 2016 CCMA press release: full PDF version. The Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (CCMA), committed with universal accessibility, has shared the software code to show subtitles on its TV3 … | Continue reading
HBB4ALL: a successful case of broadcast-broadband convergence UPM & GATV Press Release October 2016 UPM drafted this press release entitled “HBB4ALL: a successful case of broadcast-broadband convergence” in order to go back on its contribution and its involvement about 3 years … | Continue reading
HBB4ALL 3rd Workshop and Consortium Meeting 2nd-3rd November 2016. RBB Berlin, Germany The 2nd – 3rd November 2016, HBB4ALL project will held its third workshop organized and hosted by RBB television, one of the project leaders. The HBB4ALL project consortium will met for the las … | Continue reading
The Sign Language service: guidelines for the Spanish TV The Spanish Centre for the Normalization (CNLSE) of the Spanish Sign Language has created a working group to write and publish guidelines for the provision of sign language service on TV. Last Friday, September 23rd, there … | Continue reading
MOOC Media Accessibility as part of HBB4ALL project Within the HBB4ALL project, vsonix and UAB developed a specific online MOOC (Massive Open Online course) on media accessibility. This course is especially for the operational phase of Pilot-C. The course is freely available now … | Continue reading
The conference Languages and The Media 2016 HBB4ALL will present its main achievements Thursday 3 November afternoon, The project HBB4ALL will benefit from a whole panel to present its progress, achievements and opportunities during the event “Languages and The Media 2016″, Berl … | Continue reading
HBB4ALL progress presented by RBB at IFA2016 RBB as project partner will represent the main developments progress at IFA2016, 2-7 September 2016. In recent months, as part of our work in the project HBB4ALL, the RBB innovation Projects team have been testing usability issues inte … | Continue reading
How TTML can change the workflows for broadcast subtitles by Andreas Tai, IRT Introduction of the article “The XML in the air” by Andreas Tai from IRT: Broadcast subtitles that can be switched on and off are a well-established service for TV programs. With the digitalization of … | Continue reading
IRT Symposium 2016: Audiovisual Media – free of barriers On 29th and 30th June 2016, over 100 participants coming from media creators, authorities as well as end user associations in the German-speaking countries, took part in a symposium on media accessibility to which the IRT a … | Continue reading
Smartphone, Tablet or PC: Which one is better to watch your favourite subtitled film? Judit Castellà, Andreu Oliver, Olivia Gerber, & Olga Soler presented their last work “Smartphone, Tablet or PC: Which one is better to watch your favourite subtitled film?” carried out in the sc … | Continue reading
The Reception of Automatic Theatre Captions Preferences, Perception and Engagement The International Symposium on Accessible Live Events held at the Belguim University of Antwerp, the 29th April 2016 was a best occasion to present some of the HBB4ALL achievements. Indeed, Pablo R … | Continue reading
The last HBB4ALL Advisory Board meeting 2016 The 05 April 2016, the last HBB4ALL Advisory Board (AB) meeting, entitled “Access Services Demonstrations and Deployment Possibilities”, was held at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and organized by Holken Consultants (HC) with th … | Continue reading
The Effects of Personalizing Subtitle Layout: Some Preliminary Results By E. Perego, O. Gerber-Morón and S. Bottiroli The report on Subtitle Layout: “The aim of the present study carried out at the University of Trieste (Italy) was to identify the possible advantages and disadva … | Continue reading
Intermedia 2016: UAB presented HBB4ALL access services achievements From 14 to 16 April 2016, the University Autonoma of Barcelona participated at the European conference and workshops organised by Intermedia 2016 at University of Łódź, Faculty of Philology, Poland. As the AVT Re … | Continue reading
IRT leads the collaborative work: MPEG-DASH Live Streams with EBU-TT-D subtitles — The Collaborative Work IRT and partners engaged in collaborative work on the MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) and the TTML profile EBU-TT-D (EBU Timed Text-Distribution) to provide … | Continue reading
HBB4ALL Advisory Board meeting 2016 Access Services Demonstrations and Deployment Possibilities 05 April 2016, Geneva; Switzerland The third and last Advisory Board meeting, of the HBB4ALL project for 2016. Organized by Holken Consultants & Partners (HC), with support from the Eu … | Continue reading