At-Large Captioning Pilot Project II

Second phase -  FY17 Special Request - RALO-Real-time Captioning of Adobe Connect Meetings in English, Spanish, and French.

Description

The vision is to “pilot-test” ICANN’s capability to increase the accessibility of Policy development activities by providing real-time captioning service on existing At-Large community meeting calls.  The concept is to test a potential new/additional vendor (Caption First) who, it is believed, can provide captioning capability at levels comparable to our current transcript provider in real-time at substantially lower prices. See details of the first phase of the pilot at FY16 Request Captioning Pilot Project

This second phase of the pilot is approved to continue existing pilot for an additional 3 months. (6 conference calls in total). The pilot adds support for Spanish and/or French. The main goal is to provide real-time captioning for either 3 RALO meetings a month or 2 RALO and 1 ALAC meeting, and/or 3 working group meetings or webinars a month to enable full participation of all At-Large Users within ICANN.  This will give the pilot (phase 1 and phase 2)15 total calls experience to evaluate resource capabilities.

See approved FY17 Request Captioning Pilot Project with more details.

Contact

Staff Support Lead: Silvia Vivanco

Mail list: Captioning-pilot@atlarge-lists.icann.org

Special Purpose Call on FY18 Captioning Project Next Steps

Members

Meetings and Events

Next Meeting:

Last Meeting: 

Previous Calls:

Subscribe to the mail list for this WG (or read the archives / manage your subscription) please visit:   https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/captioning-pilot

Criteria for Captioning

Criteria listed in order of priority. Requests for captioning have to meet at least one of these criteria to be put on the list for captioning

1) Are there persons with disabilities or with limited bandwidth participating?

2) Are there webinars of general interest to the ICANN community that would increase the engagement of non-native English speakers?

3) Are the meetings or discussions about accessible tools or software?

EVALUATION SURVEY

Survey

Scope:

A  short  survey with two sections

Section  One  - is a set of five questions on the end user experiences of the session using captioning. This is used all the time and is combined with the webinar ones

Section Two -   Questions to be developed for Webinars . It is a set of  five questions on the quality of the webinar - Do not use these questions when the session is not a webinar.

  Questions

**Section one:

1. The  captioning  feature of the  Adobe  Connect room is part of a pilot. Please select one

•Very Helpful,

•Helpful,

• Less relevant,

• Not  Helpful

2 . Please  self-identify all  categories  that describes  who you are

• A person with  disabilities,

• Participant for whom English  is a second language,

• Participant who  doesn't speak English 

• Participant who has limited  or low bandwidth

• All of the above

• None of the above

3 What  benefits  did you get from accessing the Captioning stream? Chose as many answers as possible

• Greater understanding of the topics

• Ability to understand the session more effectively

• Provided the correct spelling of technical terminology

• Able to more fully participate and engage with the presenter

• All of the above

• other benefits, please describe   _______________________

4.  Where else do you think Captioning should be required?

• Working Groups,

• Task Forces,

• Adhoc groups,

• RALO Calls,

• ALAC Calls,

• CCWG Calls,

• Other constituencies

• All of the above

• Other, please describe ________________________

5  Any final comments?

Phase  Two:  List of   Groups (Limit 6)

• LACRALO

• EURALO-done

• AFRALO -done

• Session of the CCWG-Accountability Diversity Stream- done

• APRALO

• CCWG-IG

• CCWG-Auction Proceeds

 REQUESTS FOR CAPTIONING

 See: Consolidated data on Captioning Survey results