Help Joe Clark start The Open and Closed Project
Interested in accessibility for electronic content like PDF, Flash, movies, podcasts, etc? If you are in the publishing or government sectors, you should be.
Joe Clark’s new Open and Closed Project plans to write a set of standards for the four fields of accessible media – captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing.
Who is Joe Clark? Author, consultant, captioning guru, WCAG gadfly, active PDF/UA member and generally all-around intellectual warhead, Joe is exactly the kind of smart and fastidious purist who just might do a GREAT job doing exactly what he says he’s going to do.
In his own inimitable and irreverent way, Joe needs your help, or more specifically, your patronage (as he puts it). He’s set up the Joe Clark MicroPatronage Project, where you can help fund Joe’s work on the Open and Closed Project.
As chair of PDF/UA, an AIIM Standards Committee in which Joe has participated for two years, I can personally attest to Joe’s… uh… forthrightness, dedication to purpose and capacity to contribute. He’s both intellectually vigorous and rigorous, and his research is very likely to be not only interesting, but of real value to those in the field.
So, go ahead! Make a deposit in the Karma Bank, and let’s see what Joe comes up with!
