Heard on the World Wide Web is a world wide organisation
the World Wide Web Consortium , known as W3C. It serves as a standards resource for people developing on the Web.
Please welcome the Interaction Domain Lead for W3C, Philippe Le Hegaret.
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 the 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 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.