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38C3 Accessibility Update

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:00:00 +0000

How will accessibility be at Congress? We have learned a lot last year. There are improvements.

What is new or different?

An issue with accessibility of the Congress Centre has been resolved: all induction loops should now be operable.
The Accessibility Helpdesk at Infodesk is a place to ask questions.
- Hidden Disability Badges will also be available at the Helpdesk.
Using a wheelchair on 37C3 was difficult. Here’s a list of fixed and remaining issues.
QuietQube has moved one door to the left. Navigation links will be provided soon. The Silent Room will once again be hidden. You can ask for its location on site.
- We can promise that there will be a Meltdown Room this time.

Blind Navigation was challenging at 37C3.

We have made things better:

Tactile paths that would not work will be modified. We will use a mobile guidance system.. We will provide detailed info.
There will be better signage. Including tactile signs. (German Braille)
Infos will be more reliable.

Please help and keep the guidance system free of obstacles. You are encouraged to clear obstacles when you see them.

What will be the same?

To bring an assistant: Show an official disabled ID card at the entrance.
- If you can’t provide such an ID, ask 38c3-tickets@cccv.de for help.
- Please give 38c3-tickets@cccv.de a heads-up if you have multiple or changing assistants.
The lecture halls have priority seating.

Contact and Questions:

Before the Event

Write an e-mail to the Inclusion Operation Center: kontakt@c3ioc.de
Join our Matrix Room: #accessibility:events.ccc.de

During the Event

Call 📞 A11Y from the Eventphone DECT/SIP network.
The Infodesk will respond to e-Mails more quickly: mailto:38c3-infodesk@cccv.de

Further Info

Changelog

As info becomes clearer and improvements and are being made in the background, this article will be updated.

04/12 added caution about blind guidance modifications
10/12:
- added changelog
- updated contact info
- describing enhancements to blind navigation, removing warnings

rC3 Call for Subtitlers

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:18:37 +0000

C3Subtitles?!

Have you been hit by lockdown, you’re bored and you are craving for more chaos event feeling? Are you sitting at home and watching recorded Talks from rC3 and past Chaos events?
Bring a little bit of rC3 to your home and help with improving quality and accessibility of the CCC recordings! You can work on the subtitles from the comfort of your home, as long or as short as you like to!

How does this work?
The transcripts are generated automatically by speech recognition software and improved and corrected by you. Since talks contain lots of domain-specific terms and may have speakers with heavy accents, this is very much necessary. The next step is again automated: aligning the subtitles to the audio. Again, the result of this process is verified by you. Afterwards, the subtitles are finished!

For a more in-depth description and how-tos, take a look at c3subtitles Wiki. You can find the current status of any talk in our database on c3subtitles.de.

If you have any questions, contact us via any of the channels below!

You need subtitles? Let us know which talks you are interested in!

What if I want subtitles for a different stage?

You are part of an organisation / Erfa / Hackerspace (Chaos-West, WikiPaka, ChaosTrawler, Chaoszone, Sendezentrum, Bitwäscherei Zürich, c-base, hacc München, OIO, Chaosstudio – and all the others) which recorded and published videos during rC3?
And you would like to improve accessibility of your talks via subtitles.
Send us a message via Rocket-Chat in #subtitles or another way, see below:
What do you need:

A contact person for us,
A file containing a Fahrplan-File,
Publicly available videos, and
Motivation to take accessibility into your own hands

(Spoiler: the faster you are, the higher the chance for automatically generated transcripts by Trint – we still have credits!)

By the way: With subtitles you can make the video content machines searchable! Search for this query on media: “war das perfekte Argument dabei..”! Media can already do that: Check 14 minutes in on media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11583-rc3_eroffnung.

Contact:

#subtitles in Rocket Chat
#subtitles in IRC
E-Mail: subtitles -!-at-!- die-orga.org
@c3subtitles on Twitter

#tuwat, make congress accessible for all creatures

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:19:37 +0000

Are you suffering from post-congress withdrawal? Do you want to watch congress talks but keep scrolling media.ccc.de, thinking “meh”?
#tuwat, watch talks and be a productive part of congress at the same time!
Our subtitling efforts continue between congresses, join us on c3subtitles.de and in our IRC channel #subtitles on hackint.org!

What’s there to do?

Creating subtitles comprises two phases: writing the transcript and mapping it to the video.
For the first phase you will need to correct an autogenerated transcript. If you would rather like to write a transcript from scratch, you are of course free to go ahead. When the transcript is finished, timestamps for the subtitles will be automatically generated. Then you watch the video with the subtitles playing along, adjust the timings where appropriate, and check the transcript in one single step.

Welcome to the team!

You need subtitles?

There is a talk which you would like to watch but can’t since it doesn’t have any subtitles yet?
Contact us! We will do our best to prioritise your preferred talk! Visit us in #subtitles on irc.hackint.org1 or send us a message via Twitter: @c3subtitles.

You’ll find the finished subtitles at

http://mirror.selfnet.de/c3subtitles/congress/34c3/.

Follow @c3srt_releases on Twitter to stay up to date!

[0] https://c3subtitles.de
1 https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://hackint.org/#subtitles
2 https://wiki.c3subtitles.de/en:styleguide
3 https://wiki.c3subtitles.de/de:styleguide
[4] http://mirror.selfnet.de/c3subtitles/congress/