2008-04-01T09:15:00-05:00 Uniting Global Knowledge of Accessible Media tag:openandclosed.org,2008:T2008-04-01csa Open & Closed Project 2008-04-01T09:15:00-05:00 2008-04-01T09:15:00-05:00 tag:sucks,2008:T2008.04.01 <p> The Open & Closed Project’s new site about captioning quality – <a href="http://captioningSUCKS.com/" title="Captioning Sucks!">Captioning Sucks!</a> – launches. The site, while small, has been in the making for several months, and represents a great deal of effort on the part of the Open & Closed Project and the site’s designer, Noel Jackson of <a href="http://Eight6.com" title="Eight6">Eight6</a>. </p> <p> We also have a presence on <a href="http://twitter.com/captioningsucks" title="Captioning Sucks on Twitter">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10875933580" title="Captioning SUCKS! group on the Facebook">on the Facebook</a>, <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/467053/" title="Listing on Upcoming">on Upcoming</a>, and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeclark/sets/72157604339922473/" title="Photo set on Flickr">on Flickr</a> (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeclark/sets/72057594097988635/" title="CCfoto on Flickr">other captioning photos</a>). There’s an <a href="/feeds/" title="RSS newsfeed">RSS newsfeed</a> you can subscribe to for updates. </p> Open & Closed Project 2007-08-10T11:55:00-05:00 2007-08-10T11:55:00-05:00 tag:openandclosed.org,2007:T2007-08-10-canwest We’ve applied to <a href="http://openandclosed.org/funding/CanWest/" title="Application to CanWest">CanWest</a> for funding. They’re applying to buy Alliance Atlantis. We’re a little punchier than usual this time, pretty much daring them to come up with reasons not to give us half a million bucks. Open & Closed Project 2007-04-27T13:11:00-05:00 2007-04-27T13:11:00-05:00 tag:openandclosed.org,2007:T2007-04-27-rogers We’ve applied to <a href="http://openandclosed.org/funding/Rogers/" title="Application to Rogers">Rogers</a> for funding. They’re applying to buy some of the assets of CHUM in the same transaction in which CTV Globe Media attempts to buy CHUM Open & Closed Project 2007-04-23T12:28:00-05:00 2007-04-23T12:28:00-05:00 tag:openandclosed.org,2007:T2007-04-23-tdi We have received a <a href="http://openandclosed.org/docs/supportletters/#TDI" title="Support letters">letter of support</a> from Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc. (TDI), which we appreciate Open & Closed Project 2007-04-17T17:35:00-05:00 2007-04-17T17:35:00-05:00 tag:openandclosed.org,2007:T2007-04-17-heritage This Friday (2007.04.20 1500), Joe Clark will be <a href="http://cmte.parl.gc.ca/cmte/CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=200048&Lang=1&PARLSES=391&JNT=0&COM=10467" title="Committee-meeting notice">giving “evidence” before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage</a>, Toronto, concerning CBC accessibility. The latter half will include a presentation on the Open & Closed Project Open & Closed Project 2007-04-02T17:09:00-04:00 2007-04-05T17:09:00-04:00 tag:openandclosed.org,2007:T2007-04-02-ctv <p> We’ve <a href="/funding/CTV/" title="Application to CTV for funding of the Open & Closed Project">applied</a> to CTV Globe Media for funding of the Open & Closed Project through social benefits arising from their proposed takeover of CHUM Ltd., or from other sources. <em>This</em> is the big thing we’ve been working on. (We later filed an actual <a href="/funding/CTV/intervention/" title="Intervention in CRTC application Nº 2006-1667-5">intervention</a> with the CRTC to secure funding from CTV’s planned takeover of CHUM [2007.04.05].) </p> <p> Also: Letters of support from micropatronage <a href="/docs/donorletters/" title="Micropatronage donors’ support letters">donors</a>. </p> Open & Closed Project 2007-02-26T13:31:00-05:00 2007-02-26T13:31:00-05:00 tag:openandclosed.org,2007:T2007-01-26-biblio With the help of Antonio Cavedoni, our 300-item accessibility <a href="http://openandclosed.org/docs/biblio/" title="Bibliography">bibliography</a> is, at last, posted Open & Closed Project 2007-01-15T15:48:00-05:00 2007-01-15T15:48:00-05:00 tag:openandclosed.org,2007:T2007-01-15-rilly <p> You know our major goal is to write a set of standards for captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing, based on research and evidence. Then we’ll test them in the field for a year, publish them, and train and certify practitioners. We’ll also work on better fonts and a universal file format. And <em>all</em> this will be done in the open. </p> <p> You know all that. <a href="http://openandclosed.org/about/really/" title="What does the Open & Closed Project really mean?">But what does it really <em>mean</em>?</a> </p> Open & Closed Project 2007-01-05T14:27:00-05:00 2007-01-05T14:27:00-05:00 tag:openandclosed.org,2007:T2007-01-05-post-noel <p> We filed <a href="http://joeclark.org/access/crtc/OTA-2006/2/" title="Reply comments in CRTC OTA hearings">reply comment</a> with the Canadian broadcast regulator, replying, in fact, to about 60 pages of written material and excerpts from <em>450,000</em> words of transcripts. The Open & Closed Project solves a lot of the problems people were complaining about there. Interestingly, two educational broadcasters came out in favour of standards; they, and others, will be getting letters. An important fact I was able to assert is that the Open & Closed Project has industry <em>and grassroots</em> support, with some 170 people giving direct contributions and dozens more lending moral support. </p> <p> I also double-checked with many of the authors of previous <a href="http://openandclosed.org/docs/supportletters/" title="Support letters">support letters</a>. Do they still stand by what they wrote? And how, they said. Other support letters are being solicited. </p> <p> Conversion of the giant bibliography to HTML is happening more slowly than predicted. We could use some help. </p> Open & Closed Project 2006-12-12T14:35:00-05:00 2006-12-12T14:35:00-05:00 tag:openandclosed.org,2006:T2006.12.03-activity <ul> <li><a href="http://openandclosed.org/docs/supportletters/" title="Support letters">Support letters now posted</a></li> <li>New collection of <a href="http://openandclosed.org/docs/press/" title="Press clippings">press clippings</a>, including <a href="http://openandclosed.org/docs/press/AOLAbility/" title="Original text of interview">unexpurgated version</a> of <a href="http://ability.aol.com/ability/index.php?ID=239&catID=" title="AOL Ability interview">AOL Ability interview</a></li> <li>Giant bibliography (over 300 entries) is completely entered into computer and awaits correct conversion to HTML, likely this week</li> </ul> Open & Closed Project 2006-12-03T17:48:00-05:00 2006-12-03T17:48:00-05:00 tag:openandclosed.org,2006:T2006.12.03-hcard <ol><li> Added an <a href="http://openandclosed.org/contact/hcard.html" title="hCard">hCard</a> (the Project supports microformats). You can use it to automatically add our contact information to any device that understands hCard or vCard data. </li> <li> Added <a href="http://openandclosed.org/about/#name" title="About the Open & Closed Project">an explanation about the Project’s name</a>. </li> <li> Over at Screenfont, added <a href="http://screenfont.ca/fonts/today/708/type-critique/" title="What does the HDTV captioning spec say about typography?">a full critique</a> of the HDTV caption-fonts specification. </li> </ol> Open & Closed Project 2006-11-23T09:52:00-05:00 2006-11-23T09:52:00-05:00 tag:openandclosed.org,2006:T2006.11.23-jsm <ul> <li>Improvements to page appearance thanks to Jason Santa Maria (and Antonio Cavedoni, who made it work).</li> <li>Substantive updates to the site will be available in the first week of December.</li> </ul> Open & Closed Project 2006-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2006-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 tag:openandclosed.org,2006:T2006.11.09-launch After four years of development, the Open & Closed Project launches. We are a research project devoted mainly to writing standards for captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing based on research, evidence, and testing. You may have heard of us through Joe Clark’s <a href="http://joeclark.org/micro/" title="Joe Clark Micropatronage">micropatronage project</a>. There will be more to come on this site, which should be more substantively updated by December 2006