Press Release March 2014 – 
European Connected TV: From the Accessibility Vision into Market Reality
The HBB4All consortium is proud to announce the start of the European project HBB4ALL: Hybrid Broadcast Broadband for All.
HBB4ALL is co-funded by the European Commission under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP). The project started in December 2013 and runs for 36 months. The official kick-off meeting was hosted in Barcelona (13/14 January 2014) by HBB4ALL coordinator UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain).
Main objectives
The HBB4ALL project aims at:
- Advancing future-proof solutions for improved accessibility to media, both utilizing and supporting the successful uptake of HbbTV throughout Europe;
- Introducing and large scale user testing of such innovative services in at least three European countries;
- Introducing and expert testing of novel workflows for the production of accessibility services at European broadcasters;
- Understanding interoperability in a multi-platform and multilingual environment to test easy solutions for media accessibility;
- Benchmarking quality of access services from a user-centric approach and promoting accessibility as an added value for education and social inclusion;
- Becoming a major platform/player in the e-Inclusion economy currently taking place, fostering the future market take-up of exciting innovations in conceiving universal accessibility tools and concepts to satisfy the diverse interests of all societal groups.
The Consortium
The consortium includes 12 European partners, two of which are academic institutions, four broadcasters, two research institutes and four SMEs, all experts in the field of media accessibility.
For more information or interviewing one of the partners please contact: Hadmut Holken
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