W3C honored with a 2016 Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for Standards Work on Accessible Video Captioning and Subtitles

W3C was a recipient of a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) for W3C Timed Text Mark-up Language (TTML) in category "Standardization and Pioneering Development of Non-Live Broadband Captioning". Read the Press release.

Photos

Representatives from W3C staff Karen Myers, Philippe Le Hégaret, Thierry Michel, Yosuke Funahashi; and Members of the W3C Timed Text Working Group Glenn Adams and Mike Dolan attended the awards ceremony on 8 January at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Emmy® Award Podium

Philippe Le Hégaret accepts the Emmy® Award

Philippe Le Hégaret gives Emmy Award to Thierry Michel

Philippe Le Hégaret gives the Emmy® Award to Thierry Michel

Emmy® Award acceptance

Emmy® Award acceptance - closeup

TTWG representatives with Emmy® Award

Emmy® Award winners

W3C Team with Emmy® Award

Philippe Le Hégaret with Emmy® Award

Thierry Michel with Emmy® Award

Photo credits: Cashman Photo, Las Vegas, NV & The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Video

Video clip of the W3C acceptance of the Emmy® Award, with embedded subtitles in WebVTT and TTML. Read the acceptance remarks given by Philippe Le Hégaret.

You may view on YouTube the video of the Emmy® Award #6 in category "Standardization and Pioneering Development of Non-Live Broadband Captioning", and the full video of the 67th Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award ceremony.

W3C Marketing & Communications team
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