[nabs-l] FCC Releases Video Description Rules

[Peter Donahue]

Good morning everyone,

    So where's the requirements that emergency alerts also be voiced? 
Irene's visit reminds me that much ado is being made about video description 
but how about accessible emergency alerts displayed on the T.V. screen. We 
got along without video description for many years. Television programs have 
always been accessible to everyone including the blind. It's just the 
method(s) of gaining that access that is different. If Jose changes course 
and threatens South Texas I want to know about it via all media including 
accessible alerts broadcast by T.V. stations.

Peter Donahue



 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua Lester" <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu>
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] FCC Releases Video Description Rules


Awesome!
Hopefully, the Christian television channels will do the same, with
their movies.
I know, that Daystar, TBN, and VTN, (a local Christian channel in
Arkansas,) show Christian movies, on the weekends.
I hope this will apply to them, later on.
Blessings, Joshua

On 8/29/11, Nicole B. Torcolini at Home <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:
> I know that this is a little late, but just incase people did not hear 
> from
> another source...
>
>
>
> On August 25, 2011, the Commission released a Report and Order to adopt
> rules requiring video description for certain television programming. 
> Video
> description is narrated descriptions of a television program’s key visual
> elements inserted into natural pauses in the program’s dialogue.  Video
> descriptions improve access to television programs for millions of 
> Americans
> who are blind or visually impaired.
>
> The Commission adopted rules requiring video description in 2000, but 
> those
> rules were struck down by a federal court in 2002.  In 2010, Congress
> enacted the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility 
> Act
> (CVAA), which required reinstatement of those video description rules, 
> with
> certain modifications.
>
> These video description rules require ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC affiliates in
> the top 25 market areas and cable and satellite television providers with
> more than 50,000 subscribers to provide video description.  ABC, CBS, Fox,
> NBC, USA, the Disney Channel, TNT, Nickelodeon, and TBS are each required 
> to
> provide 50 hours of video-described prime time or children’s programming 
> per
> calendar quarter.  Full compliance with the rules is required on July 1,
> 2012.
>
> Report and Order:
> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A1.doc
> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A1.pdf
> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A1.txt
>
>
> Copps Statement:
> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A2.doc
> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A2.pdf
> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A2.txt
>
>
> Clyburn Statement:
> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A3.doc
> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A3.pdf
> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A3.txt
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