Joe Clark, Toronto

What do the CBC captioning manuals say?

2008-04-10T13:51:00-05:00

I have them and now I can tell you.

Captioning Sucks! launches

2008-04-01T09:15:00-05:00

A garish new site about lousy captioning.

Intervention in TFO licence renewal

2008-03-16T14:35:00-05:00

No, they can’t get away with less than 100% captioning. Besides, TFO was live-captioning French in 1996. “Special and exempt are two of the many things TFO is not.”

Emancipated

2008-02-06T12:15:00-05:00

As of 2008.02.04, rights to my first book have reverted to me. <cite>Building Accessible Websites</cite> will be reissued in a corrected online-only edition, and many translations will be authorized.

More on GO Transit signage

2007-12-12T16:06:00-05:00

My response in the process of the appeal of the decision not to release public documents. Yeah, it’s that complicated.

<acronym>ATypI</acronym>-TTC video now transcribed

2007-12-03T15:34:00-05:00

But not captioned. I can’t get the software to work.

Comments on <acronym>AODA</acronym> accessibility “standard” available

2007-10-22T14:32:00-05:00

The <a href="http://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/mcss/english/pillars/accessibilityOntario/what/AODA_guide.htm" title="What you should know about the AODA">Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act</a> (<acronym>AODA</acronym>) is a rather weak piece of legislation that gives businesses and other organizations in Ontario until the year 2025 to become accessible to people with disabilities. One of the tasks of the <a href="http://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/mcss/english/pillars/accessibilityOntario/what/about_ado.htm" title="Accessibility Directorate of Ontario">Accessibility Directorate of Ontario</a> is the creation of <a href="http://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/mcss/english/pillars/accessibilityOntario/accesson/business/information/" title="Homepage for the standard">a standard for information and communications</a>. And <a href="http://joeclark.org/access/crtc/AODA/November2007/" title="Comments on AODA information and communications standard">I’ve got comments</a>.

Micropatronage: This time it’s personal

2007-10-22T14:32:01-05:00

Last year, I began a <dfn>micropatronage</dfn> campaign to fund me while I fundraised for my research project, the <a href="http://openandclosed.org/" title="OC-Pro">Open & Closed Project</a>. Now I’m giving micropatronage another go. This time the goal is to lobby against closed-door “standards” and in favour of our own open standards, and to propose a radical new deregulation plan that would provide fro 100% accessibility. This time I’m trying something new. <a href="http://joeclark.org/micro/" title="Joe Clark Micropatronage">This time it’s personal. Micropatronage: THE REVENGE.</a>

Speaking notes from An Event Apart available

2007-10-08T16:33:00-05:00

<a href="http://joeclark.org/appearances/AEA/2007/" title="Why I Hate Online Captioning">Notes posted</a> from my presentation at An Event Apart (“Why I Hate Online Captioning”).

Speaking notes from <acronym>ATypI</acronym> available

2007-09-18T15:27:00-05:00

Speaking notes posted from <acronym>ATypI</acronym> (<a href="http://joeclark.org/appearances/atypi/2007/caption-subtitle/" title="Don’t show printouts to grannies and call that a test">captioning</a>; <a href="http://joeclark.org/appearances/atypi/2007/TTC/notes/" title="Speaking notes for ‘Inscribed in the Living Tile: Type in the Toronto Subway’">TTC</a>).

‘Inscribed in the Living Tile’

2007-09-16T10:14:00-05:00

Yes, it’s finally ready: “<a href="http://joeclark.org/appearances/atypi/2007/TTC/inscribed/" title="Inscribed in the Living Tile: Type in the Toronto Subway">Inscribed in the Living Tile</a>: Type in the Toronto Subway.” (Shorter version upcoming.) It’s 50 pages and 2 MB in size, so give it a while.

Appeal of licence issued to the Accessible Channel

2007-09-04T15:54:00-05:00

Because one ghetto TV station for the blind does not equate to accessibility

What is GO Transit hiding?

2007-08-14T14:20:00-05:00

Recently, GO Transit, the commuter railroad, tested some new signage designs. Why won’t they release any information about those signs, and why isn’t the government watchdog assisting with such release?

SwiftWatch™

2007-07-17T08:15:00-05:00

Keeping tabs on the most expensive captioning software in the world (and its many bugs)

Save TTC Signs

2007-07-03T08:15:00-05:00

Did you know that TTC plans to remove and destroy irreplaceable old signs, including the only existing versions of Paul Arthur’s signage redesign at St. George? In response, I’ve started a write-in campaign to force TTC staff and Commissioners to preseve old signage that has to be removed – and to research and test a rational new signage system

@media 2007 notes published

2007-06-14T16:34:00-05:00

Speaking notes from @media San Francisco and London now available

WCAG Samurai Errata for WCAG 1 released

2007-06-07T22:32:00-05:00

At @media in London today, we released the <a href="http://WCAGSamurai.org/errata/" title="Errata"><acronym>WCAG</acronym> Samurai Errata</a> for WCAG 1.0. In addition two peer reviews, by <a href="http://SamuraiReview.wordpress.com" title="SamuraiReview">Gian Sampson-Wild</a> and <a href="http://ReviewSamurai.wordpress.com" title="ReviewSamurai">Alastair Campbell</a>, were developed independently and in secret and were unveiled today.

Pushing back the date of release to @media London, June 7–8

2007-05-14T15:34:00-04:00

We’re moving the release date of WCAG Samurai back to the second @media conference, in London June 7–8, 2007

We now have a newsfeed

2007-05-14T15:33:00-04:00

There’s now a <a href="http://wcagsamurai.org/feeds/wcagsamurai.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" title="RSS file; click only if you know what you’re doing">newsfeed (RSS/XML)</a> for WCAG Samurai

Looking for an agent

2007-05-10T14:10:00-05:00

But I have <a href="http://joeclark.org/agent/" title="Looking for an agent">certain requirements</a>

Transcript of my remarks to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage

2007-05-09T14:25:00-05:00

I <a href="http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/21/evidentiary/" title="‘Is this going on a blog site?’">appeared at a hearing</a> in Toronto on 2007.04.20 (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeclark/sets/72157600103287001/" title="Flickr: Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage">photos</a>). My remarks were later <a href="http://joeclark.org/access/captioning/CBC/Heritage/transcript/" title="Transcript of remarks to Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage">transcribed</a>

Giving ‘evidence’ before a House of Commons committee on Friday

2007-04-17T17:35:00-05:00

This Friday (2007.04.20 1500), I’m <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. (I’ve been there already – twice – in the last 15 years)

Four design articles from the <cite>Globe and Mail</cite>, 1993

2007-03-07T16:58:00-05:00

<ul> <li><a href="http://joeclark.org/design/RogerBlack.html" title="">Interview with Roger Black</a></li> <li><a href="http://joeclark.org/design/BrodyCarter.html" title="Matthew Carter & Neville Brody, 1993">Feature on joint presentation by Matthew Carter and Neville Brody</a></li> <li><a href="http://joeclark.org/design/Hel-vetica.html" title="Life in Hel-vetica">Life in Hel-vetica</a>, a quick introduction to Helvetica for laypeople</li> <li><a href="http://joeclark.org/design/DanielWeil.html" title="Old interview with Daniel Weil, designer of the Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Very’">Interview with Daniel Weil</a>, designer of the Pet Shop Boys’s album/tile <cite>Very</cite></li> </ul>

Intervention against the National Broadcast Reading Service’s claimed Accessible Channel

2007-03-07T16:57:00-05:00

Wrong in principle and for a host of other reasons

Speaking notes from Web Directions North 2007 finally up

2007-02-15T15:25:00-05:00

As a nice tidy HTML file instead of a 20-megabyte PDF

Complaint to Toronto’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee on lack of testing of proposed streetsigns

2007-02-14T15:25:00-05:00

In short, they haven’t been tested, and you can’t roll them out until they have been

Letter to Tim Berners-Lee: Time to cancel WCAG 2

2007-02-07T19:00:00-05:00

In which I call upon the chair of the W3C to cancel the failed WCAG 2 misadventure

Presentation to TTC about their crap signage

2007-02-01T08:34:00-05:00

Yesterday I gave a presentation, lasting a whopping five minutes, to the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) about their crap signage, which you may now <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/#pres" title="Is TTC signage in ‘a state of good repair”?">read</a> in various forms (with one more to come, at Sunday’s TransitCamp).

List of projects for 2007

2007-01-02T16:17:00-05:00

Just what it says

Another CRTC submission and another paper on accessibility of interactive television

2006-12-20T14:56:00-05:00

<ul><li> <a href="http://joeclark.org/access/crtc/OTA-2006/2/" title="Reply comments in CRTC OTA hearings">Reply comments</a> in the CRTC’s somewhat farcical hearings on over-the-air television (and captioning) </li> <li> <a href="http://joeclark.org/access/resources/interfaces/expressvu-itv.html" title="Captioning and iTV">Another research paper</a> on onscreen menu systems for interactive television, with some discussion of caption fonts </li> </ul>

New documents from WCAG Working Group cochair on cognitive disability published

2006-10-26T14:31:00-05:00

Now posted: <a href="http://joeclark.org/access/webaccess/WCAG/cognitive/" title="WCAG 2 activity on cognitive disability"><abbr>WCAG</abbr> 2 activity on cognitive disability</a>, including a November 2006 invitation to a teleconference on the subject (complete with Microsoft Word attachments, which I have HTMLified – a case of WCAG Working Group cochair Gregg Vanderheiden’s inability to produce the accessible Web content his guidelines would require)

Quoted in the <cite>Wall Street Journal</cite>

2006-10-25T09:50:00-05:00

I am quoted in an <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/article_print/SB116137109874699183-lMyQjAxMDE2NjIxNTMyNzUxWj.html" title="Deaf Web users fear being left behind as TV shows stream onto the Internet">article</a> by Andrew LaVallee (we talked about different pronunciations of his name) entitled “Deaf Web users fear being left behind as TV shows stream onto the Internet.” The piece describes the demand by deaf people for captions on online and handheld video and how pretty much nobody is meeting that demand. See <a href="http://blog.fawny.org/2006/10/25/wsj-cc/" title="Online captioning in the ‘Wall Street Journal’">blog entry</a> with minor corrections

A busy week for regulatory filings

2006-10-01T15:50:00-05:00

<ol><li> <a href="http://joeclark.org/access/captioning/Neves/" title="Comments on Josélia Neves’s captioning thesis">Comments on Josélia Neves’s captioning thesis</a>: Neves, a Portuguese researcher working in England, wrote a thesis on captioning, especially Portuguese captioning, and the thesis has a few problems </li> <li> <a href="http://joeclark.org/access/captioning/CBC/CBC-caption-reuse.html" title="CBC News Online: Reuse of TV captions onto the Web">CBC News Online: Reuse of TV captions onto the Web</a>: The original proposal for an old project to reuse TV captions on the Web. We actually made it happen for a couple of years </li> <li> <a href="http://joeclark.org/access/crtc/OTA-2006/" title="Comments on CRTC over-the-air television review">Intervention</a> in the CRTC’s review of over-the-air television </li> </ol>

Signage & wayfinding articles posted

2006-09-20T16:25:00-05:00

<a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/" title="Signage & wayfinding">Signage articles posted</a>, including old evaluations and typeface comparisons for GO Transit

Accessibility of visual menu systems and interfaces and video on demand (<acronym>VOD</acronym>)

2006-08-16T15:03:00-05:00

<a href="http://joeclark.org/access/resources/interfaces/" title="Accessibility of visual menu systems and interfaces and video on demand (VOD)">Three articles</a> from the 2002–2003 era on making visual menu systems (like on digital TV) accessible

Test of em, en, thin, and hair spaces

2006-07-16T13:38:00-05:00

New browser test published: <a href="/standards/spacetest.html" title="Test of em, en, thin, and hair spaces">Em, en, thin, and hair spaces</a>.

CBC captioning errors and omissions

2006-07-04T15:47:00-05:00

I’m now keeping a running tally of CBC captioning errors and omissions:. And you can even subscribe via RSS!

Response to CMP ‘Captioning Key’

2006-06-06T13:53:00-05:00

Response to <acronym>CMP</acronym> <cite>Captioning Key</cite>: A critique of the lavishly-funded Captioned Media Program’s captioning “style” guide