From the Open & Closed Project’s homepage (Note: a few of these links do not find a valid page yet):
The Open & Closed Project is a research project headquartered in Toronto. Our main goal is to write a set of standards for the four fields of accessible media – captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing. We’ll develop those standards through research and evidence-gathering. Where research or evidence is missing on a certain topic, we’ll carry it out ourselves.
We’ll test the finished standards for a year in the real world and publish them. (You’ll be able to download them for free or buy them in several formats.) Then we’ll develop training and certification programs for practitioners. It will finally be possible to become a certified captioner (or audio describer or subtitler or dubbing artist).
We’ll also develop and test improved fonts for captioning and subtitling (already underway). We’ll develop a universal file format.
This is a huge undertaking and apparently has been in the works for 4 years already. I applaud the effort and hope that this will also help snowball the increased attention to accessibility in web development.
I’m going to see if my company, The Karcher Group, Inc. will consider helping fund the project as well. It seems only right to do so for such a worthy cause and I encourage you to do so as well. For now, I’ll include his banner ad for support.
Doing the same here, seeing if I can get some funding help for the project as well. It is well worth putting the money towards.
Which links are 404ing? I went in and did a big fix job the other day.
Joe,
From what I experienced, there is a problem with the “research” and “test” links on the What We’re Doing page & “sitemap” on the 404 page itself.