INTERNATIONAL Joint Coordination Activity TELECOMMUNICATION UNION On Accessibility and Human Factors TELECOMMUNICATION Doc 199 STANDARDIZATION SECTOR English only STUDY PERIOD 2013-2016 Original: English Source: Chairman JCA-AHF Title: Draft meeting report of Joint Coordination Activity on Accessibility and Human Factors (JCA-AHF), Geneva, 18 February 2015 Opening of the meeting The JCA-AHF meeting was held on 18 February 2015 during ITU-T SG16 meeting (09 February 20 February 2015) and chaired by the JCA-AHF – Chairman Andrea Saks (USA), vice-chairman Christopher Jones (UK). chairman Mr Floris van Nes (The Netherlands) attended remotely. The Chairman welcomed the participants in the room and the remote participants, reminding that the meeting was captioned and that all participants need to identify themselves for the captioners each time they spoke. Christopher Jones who is deaf was attending with two British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters. Christopher signed to the interpreters who then spoke for him by translating his signs into voiced speech. Beat Kleeb is deaf too and the representative of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) also attended and had the interpreters voiced over his speech so that his comments could be understood. His normal sign language is not BSL but his contribution to
INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION Joint Coordination Activity On Accessibility and Human Factors TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDIZATION SECTOR STUDY PERIOD 2013-2016 Doc 199 English only Original: English Source: Chairman JCA-AHF Title: Draft meeting report of Joint Coordination Activity on Accessibility and Human Factors (JCA-AHF), Geneva, 18 February 2015 Opening of the meeting The JCA-AHF meeting was held on 18 February 2015 during ITU-T SG16 meeting (09 February – 20 February 2015) and chaired by the JCA-AHF Chairman Andrea Saks (USA), vice-chairman Christopher Jones (UK). Mr Floris van Nes (The Netherlands) attended remotely. The Chairman welcomed the participants in the room and the remote participants, reminding that the meeting was captioned and that all participants need to identify themselves for the captioners each time they spoke. Christopher Jones who is deaf was attending with two British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters. Christopher signed to the interpreters who then spoke for him by translating his signs into voiced speech. Beat Kleeb is deaf too and the representative of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) also attended and had the interpreters voiced over his speech so that his comments could be understood. His normal sign language is not BSL but his contribution to chairman
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