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The final chapter discusses role and utility of standardization of accessibility. Section 16.2 discusses the role of accessible media in the twenty-first century, in particular what we mean by ‘media’, ‘computing’ and ‘accessibility’. Section 16.3 goes on to discuss the role of standardization in furthering media accessibility. Section 16.4 concludes with an account of the work of a focus group at ITU-T on Audio Visual Media Accessibility to produce a roadmap of actions covering legislation, regulation and standardization that can make Audio Visual (AV) media more accessible.
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AD Broadcast mix is an alternative ‘ready-to-use’ mix of the audio channels including the AD. It is produced by the broadcaster.
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AD Receiver mix delivers the AD as a separate audio track to the receiver. This track is mixed with the original programme audio in the receiver itself.
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Looms, P.O. (2015). Standardization of Audiovisual Media Accessibility. In: Biswas, P., Duarte, C., Langdon, P., Almeida, L. (eds) A Multimodal End-2-End Approach to Accessible Computing. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6708-2_16
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