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Emmy® Award Acceptance Remarks

Good evening.

366 million people worldwide/ have a disabling hearing loss / according to the World Health Organization.

Our organization, the World Wide Web Consortium, / known as W3C, /is working on the technology standards/ to ensure that the Web is accessible to everyone. This is one of many areas we've been working on.

Today the Web and TV have converged/ and we are working on technologies/ to bridge the Web and TV environments.

W3C Timed Text Markup Language standard, /called TTML, /enables people who are deaf or are hard of hearing /to understand the audio portion/ of the video content/ using captioning text.

For international audiences,/ TTML enables subtitles/ again, for the audio portion of the video content.

So, on behalf of the World Wide Web Consortium, /I would like to thank the Academy/ for recognizing the work of the W3C on the TTML standard.

I would of course also like to thank the individuals/ of the TTML Working Group,/ some of whom are here with me tonight,/ and the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative/ for their technical work/ to help make Web video content /more accessible to everyone, around the world.

Thank you.