Richard,
it appears that the attachments may have been stripped, try this BBC
internal link:
http://diversity.gateway.bbc.co.uk/
look for the BBC's December 2005 report into learning disabled
audiences and the media: Not seen, not heard.
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
On 13 Jun 2006, at
Matthew,
The Disability Equality Duty will apply, from December 2006, to the
BBC , Channel 4 and the Welsh Fourth Channel (S4C).
for more:
http://www.drc-gb.org/employers_and_service_provider/
disability_equality_duty.aspx
The Disability Equality Duty for the public sector comes into
Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
The Disability Equality Duty will apply, from December 2006, to the BBC
, Channel 4 and the Welsh Fourth Channel (S4C).
Right, but that's irrelevant to my point. That simply means that those
organisations have to put the effort in to promoting disability equality, it
Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
given the BBC's remit might this mean they need to ensure that they have
copyright clearance, if they need it?
Sorry, I don't understand. The whole point of the Copyright (Visually
Impaired Persons) Act is that it enables (some) people to make accessible
versions of
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...] In fact, I think there was a blog about this,
which poked fun at the BBC's stock image usage - bunny something or another.
The Beeb's news site used to get laughed at in the railway world because
they nearly always used a picture of an old
On the BBC News site, you cantell which images are
BBC sourced, and which are agency sourced by the presence or absence of a small
credit on the image itself.
For example, on this story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5074164.stm,
the top image is uncredited which should be BBC sourced,
In fact, I think there was a blog about this,
which poked fun at the BBCs stock image usage bunny something or
another.
There is the rather fantastic "Am I Abstract Or
Not"...
http://amiabstractornot.highlyillogical.org/
J
Jason
a few correspondents have mentioned the use of stock photographs.
People with Learning Disabilities benefit from consistency and many
learn an alphabet of images. Some start with photographs of concrete
objects and then move on to symbol libraries.
A screengrab of how the bbc news homepage
Jason,
that is mad and fantastic..
Text in a large font for a similar area of screen estate may be
equally abstract...
Police 'stormed in like burglars' we may know where, but
the photo of M below says far more than the text, but best is both ~:
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
On 13
I read backstage, but have not yet contributed, but if my support
would do any good, I am happy to provide it for this cause. I work on
local knowledge (indigenous knowledge) databases and access to
collections. I also teach museum studies here in Cambridge (I was
Jodi Mates supervisor,
Matthew,
sorry was replying to DED rather than CA
would that be double indemnity ~:
cheers
Jonathan Chetwynd
On 13 Jun 2006, at 09:20, Matthew Somerville wrote:
Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
given the BBC's remit might this mean they need to ensure that they
have copyright clearance, if they
Hi Guys,
I am always interested in the copyright issues that arrive in this
discussion from time to time.
Regarding the BBC, has anyone thought to ask their lawyers to simply
put a clause in to their
own license contract agreement?
At least then one would be able to make informed decisions
The symbolworld site uses a system of graphics called Widgit Rebus Symbols, are they proprietry or is there an independent body responsible for standardising new symbols ?
Are there licensing issues attached to using symbols to represent text ?On 6/13/06, Jonathan Chetwynd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Interesting too see someone else
interested in Widgit Rebus. Weve been looking at using those and/or
Bliss Symbolics (http://www.blissymbolics.org/bliss.shtml)
to develop a symbol based interface to our chatbot for use by those with
learning difficulties. Anybody got any idea of the
Graeme,
they are proprietary, and this is a huge issue in respect of the web.
The fact is that Widgit create the symbols in SVG but distribute in
other formats.
similarly the symbols on web pages are awkward eg large gifs covering
a number of symbols, or with peculiar names.
Unfortunately
Interesting article on WCAG2 from last month...
http://alistapart.com/articles/tohellwithwcag2
J
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Subject: [backstage] Urgent WCAG2:
David,
there are some pretty fundamental differences... you might also want
to look at Makaton and PCS
also there is the Concept Coding Framework, which is a proposed means
of translating between symbol languages.
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
On 13 Jun 2006, at 14:24, David Burden
Hey folks, welcome to me on the other side!
So the BBC News Website just released Live Stats features across the
news website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5071754.stm).
But in fine hacker tradition I've not been wasting my unemployment to
sit around in my underwear watching fucking Trisha and
On 12/06/06, Jonathan Chetwynd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It would be very helpful to gather contacts and support within the
BBC, and backstage in particular.
I have already contacted Jonathan Hassell and Andrea Callender
please read the attached final draft and confirm your support.
Dude, do
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