[NFBK] Fwd: Audio description

[Karen Mayne]

Karen Mayne,
President of the National Federation of the Blind of Kentucky's Frankfort chapter.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. 
Helen Keller

 

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> From: HBO Closed Captions <HBOClosedCaptions at hbo.com>
> Date: January 9, 2021 at 11:00:45 AM EST
> To: Karen Mayne <karenmayne1964 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Audio description
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> Hello,
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> Thank you again for contacting HBO Closed Captions.
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> To help with your inquiry, we’d like to share with you additional details at this time.
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> We’ve contacted the National Federation of the Blind leadership during the 2020 National Convention.  We’ve followed up with the NFB thereafter to discuss plans to add audio description to HBO Max and we look forward to working with the NFB going forward. 
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> In addition, we are also working alongside American Counsel of the Blind, with whom we reached an agreement in the fall to commit to certain accessibility enhancements to HBO Max that include audio description.  A description of our commitments and link to the agreement can be found here: https://acb.org/HBO-accessibility.
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> We appreciate your outreach and thank you again for contacting us.
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> Thank you,
> HBO Closed Captions
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> From: Karen Mayne <karenmayne1964 at gmail.com>
> Date: Friday, January 8, 2021 at 8:16 AM
> To: HBO Closed Captions <HBOClosedCaptions at hbo.com>
> Subject: Re: Audio description
>  
> **External Email received from: karenmayne1964 at gmail.com **
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> At least I finally got a response. I would like to have a phone number to call. The one that I finally found, no one ever answered.
> 
> Karen Mayne,
> President of the National Federation of the Blind of Kentucky's Frankfort chapter.
> Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. 
> Helen Keller
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> On Jan 7, 2021, at 3:44 PM, HBO Closed Captions <HBOClosedCaptions at hbo.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Thank you for contacting HBO Closed Captions.
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> We appreciate your inquiry. 
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> At this time HBO does not support Descriptive Audio but we do recognize its value to the visually impaired community and we will continue to discuss it internally.
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> Thank you,
> HBO Closed Captions
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> From: Karen Mayne <karenmayne1964 at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 12:29 PM
> To: HBO Closed Captions <HBOClosedCaptions at hbo.com>
> Subject: Audio description
>  
> **External Email received from: karenmayne1964 at gmail.com **
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> To whom it may concern,
> The national Federation of the blind, NFB, has tried to contact anyone from HBO about audio description. As far as I am aware, no one has bothered to answer our inquiries. When I turn on the secondary audio programming feature on my TV, it changes the language of the movie I’m trying to watch to Spanish. Netflix, Disney+, and even Amazon prime has started offering audio description. It is unacceptable that HBO, the oldest movie channel, does not offer it. if you do not speak English and want to watch an English-speaking movie in Spanish, you can turn on close captioning and change the language to Spanish and watch the movie that way. If you’re blind, and do not speak Spanish, turning on the secondary audio programming will not help you in the least. Please fix this horrendous oversight!
> By the way, this was the only accessibility email that I could find.
> 
> Karen Mayne,
> President of the National Federation of the Blind of Kentucky's Frankfort chapter.
> Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. 
> Helen Keller
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