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Dear user,

Last month, the EBU switched to a new authentication method, Microsoft Entra, and decommissioned the former one (sso.ebu.ch).

What this means for most EBU Members ?

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Access Services Experts meeting 2022

Event details

16 - 17 Jun 2022
Physical
Oslo, Norway
Members Only

The next EBU Access Services meeting will take place in Oslo, Norway, at the kind invitation of NRK. The group will get back to the root of what the Access Services community is all about: strengthen and create connections in a friendly atmosphere while discussing and exchanging on the important issues that matter to media accessibility experts.

Download the agenda

Contact us

Amélie Rossignol-Farjon
Senior Project Manager
[email protected]
+41 22 717 2422

Access Services experts gather once a year to raise the most important questions during a plenary session which has become, over the years, the meeting point for those working in accessibility services across EBU organizations.

This event is a great opportunity to meet with other colleagues working in accessibility and share projects, exchange best practices and learn from each other’s innovations and approaches.
Participants will get the chance to cross-pollinate ideas and exchange, not only with their peers but also with people from the rest of the industry and European associations.

The 2022 Access Services plenary meeting was held in Oslo, Norway, on Friday 17 June 2022, at the kind invitation of NRK.

On Thursday, 16 June, all delegates were invited to attend a pre-event, including a presentation of NRK Access Services, a guided tour and a cocktail.

DOCUMENTS

Opening Remarks - Vibeke Haugen

BBC - Subtitles Challenge and Audio Description - Nigel Megitt

EGTA - Accessible TV Advertising - Katty Roberfroid abd Warren O'Donnell

RBB - Guidelines for delivering Accessibility services using HbbTV - Klaus Merkel

RTS - Play Suisse Accessibility - Benoît Rebetez

ZDF - Access Services the Digital Switch - Nicola Foltys

DR - Navigating the Digital: Media use among the blind and visually impaired - Karen Lerbech Pedersen

WDR - Automated Live Subtitling - Klaus Merkel

RTVE/Vicomtech - Evaluating the Quality and Productivity of Automatic Subtitles Generated Using Ai - Francisco Armero and Arantza del Pozo

SVT - Automatic subtitling for SVT Local News online - Hakan Grimfeld

DW - Plain X - Kay Macquarrie

NRK/NORSE - Innovation on Visual Accessibility - Siri Antonsen and Njal Borch

DR - NERD Model - Peter Rosa and Claes Holmberg

STXT - NERstar - Robbin Ribback

Speakers

Gion Linder

Head of Access Services, Swiss Txt AG (Switzerland)

Frauke Langguth

Head of ARD Text, ARD (Germany)

Siri Antonsen

Strategic Head of Accessibility, NRK

Amélie Rossignol

Senior Project Manager, EBU Media

Katty Robertfroid

Director-General, egta

Warren O'Donnell

TV Research and Project Manager, egta

Nigel Megitt

Executive Product Manager, BBC (United Kingdom)

Klaus Merkel

Senior Engineer Distribution, RBB (Germany)

Benoît Rebetez

Program and Project Manager, Swiss TXT

Nicola Foltys

Head of Access Services, ZDF (Germany)

Karen Lerbech

Diversity and Accessibility Project Manager, DR (Denmark)

Francisco Armero

Technical Director of Broadcasting and Head of Access Services, RTVE (Spain)

Arantza del Pozo

Director of Speech and Natural Language Technologies, Vicomtech

Håkan Grimfeldt

Head of Live Subtitling, SVT (Sweden)

Kay Macquarrie

Project Manager, Research Projects, DW (Germany)

Jonathan Penny

Audio Description Production Manager, ITV (United Kingdom)

Njål Borch

Senior Researcher, NORCE Northern Research Institute

Peter Rosa

Subtitling Development Manager, DR (Denmark)

Claes Holmberg

Live Subtitling, DR (Denmark)

Robin Ribback

SRG-SSR (Switzerland)