Dr Hollier, Major Projects Manager for Media Access Australia is one of Australia’s leading accessibility experts. He has completed a PhD entitled The Disability Divide: an examination into the needs of computing and Internet-related technologies on people who are blind or vision impaired.
Designed by the Spanish company Code Factory, TV Speak can be installed on computers with Windows 7, Vista or XP, which have been connected to a TV antenna via a tuner card. Once installed, it will verbalise functions such as:
TV Speak is currently only available in the USA, Spain, France and Germany.
Given the recent floods and tornados across the United States, the FCC emphasised the importance of ensuring that people who have vision or hearing impairment have access to emergency information, especially all ‘critical details’ pertaining to the emergency, and how to respond.
The requirement applies to all distributors of video programming to American households, with no exceptions. All distributors must ensure the information they provide is accessible, whatever signal or medium they use to distribute the contact.
The draft documents being reviewed are:
These documents are not the WCAG 2.0 standard itself, but rather supporting documents to provide guidance to developers as to how the standards can be adopted.
