We welcome our new fantastic Television Partner: WIPR. This channel joins us in our initiative Enhanced Access to Video for Students with Sensory Disabilities through Emerging Technology (EnhAcceSS), funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
The 24-hour virtual Global Disability Youth Summit (GDYS) was held the past 14 of January. The first one of its kind, the GDYS was a showcase for the innovations that young people with disabilities have created at the regional, local, and global levels. During the event, Nefertiti Matos Olivares, our Partnership Development Coordinator, showcased the capabilities of All4Access.
HITN, the leading Spanish-language network that offers educational and entertainment content to more than 40 million households across the United States, announced today its partnership with Dicapta to make its programming more accessible to people with sensory disabilities.
Our first Watch Party Para Ti is this Friday, January 28
We invite you to join our Latinos4Access Facebook group, where we will be presenting our first “Watch Party Para Ti” next Friday, January 28, at 7 p.m. ET. We will start our Watch Parties with the wonderful Oscar-nominated and award winner film: Feeling Through.
On December 3, celebrating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we officially launched Cine con Sentido. The main objective of this initiative, conceived by Dicapta and Canal 22 Internacional, is to highlight the benefits of making, offering, and enjoying accessible audiovisual content supporting in this way the inclusion of our Latino community.
Dicapta has appointed Nefertiti Matos Olivares as the new Partnership Development Coordinator of the company. As a subject matter expert on cultural accessibility, Nefertiti will assume responsibilities on December 13, 2021. Mrs. Matos has worked as an Access Technology Educator for the New York Public Library’s Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library during the last seven years, providing one-on-one technology coaching, and facilitating group workshops on tech topics for the blind and low vision community in both English and Spanish.
On November 18, Canal 22 Internacional, one of our great allies on accessibility in Spanish within the TVAccess project funded by the United States Department of Education, received the Outstanding Contribution in International Accessibility Award from the American Council of the Blind, Audio Description Awards.
What is the status of audio description in Spanish in the U.S.? What happens with the Secondary Audio Program (SAP) when delivering audio description in Spanish? How can we make better use of existent accessibility assets? All these topics and more are addressed in the conversation that Dr. María Victoria Diaz, Dicapta’s President, had with Carl Richardson and Brian Charlson at their Picture This podcast.
We are thrilled with the most recent podcast episode of Reid My Mind featuring Dicapta's President, Maria Victoria Diaz. Reid My Mind is hosted and produced by Tom Reid. Tom, like Maria Victoria, has Hispanic roots, loves music, advocates for accessibility, and is a tech geek.
