[NFBMD] FW: NCAC:acb- Comcast Accessibility Announcement: Rio Olympics For Everyone

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From: Marybeth Cleveland [mailto:mbcleveland at fastmail.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 10:22 PM
Subject: Fwd: NCAC:acb- Comcast Accessibility Announcement: Rio Olympics For Everyone

Great news everyone!
Olympics audio described! See below...
Marybeth
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From: Cindy LaBon <cindylabon at gmail.com<mailto:cindylabon at gmail.com>>
Date: August 3, 2016 at 8:41:30 PM EDT
To: cindylabon <cindylabon at gmail.com<mailto:cindylabon at gmail.com>>
Subject: NCAC:acb- Comcast Accessibility Announcement: Rio Olympics For Everyone
Hello Members and friends,

Looks like video or audio description for the Olympics, yippee!
Sorry for those of you who have Verizon, maybe next time!


From: denise colley via leadership
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 2:49 PM
To: Kim.Charlson at Perkins.org<mailto:Kim.Charlson at perkins.org> ; Leadership at acblists.org<mailto:Leadership at acblists.org>
Cc: announce at acblists.org<mailto:announce at acblists.org>
Subject: Re: [leadership] [acb-l] Comcast Accessibility Announcement:
Rio Olympics

From: Kim.Charlson---

Hello All,
I’m pleased to share the below announcement regarding the 2016 Summer
Olympics in Rio. For the first time, NBC is offering video description
on primetime Olympics coverage. Please share the below information
with your email lists and friends far and wide. Try testing your
television set-up with audio description now to prepare for next
week’s coverage. For more information about how to set up your
television, visit the ACB Audio Description website at
www.acb.org/adp<http://www.acb.org/adp>.

I want to express my thanks to NBC Universal and Comcast for making
this accessibility to audio description for the Olympics available to
the blind community for the first time. This is a tremendous step
forward in access … and we look forward to continuing coverage of this
type to come in the future.

Rio Olympics for Everyone
Comcast and NBC Universal will deliver the most comprehensive and
technologically advanced Olympics in history for Rio 2016. For fans
with sensory disabilities that also means the most accessible Olympics
experience ever, including:


Live video description on NBC’s Primetime show available
across the country on your local NBC station wherever SAP (Secondary
Audio Program) audio feeds are available. XFINITY customers can also
enjoy the Rio Opening and Closing Ceremonies OnDemand with video
description the day after they air.
  Unprecedented closed captioned Olympics content including all
linear television and all live events and replays on the NBC Sports
app.
  An XFINITY® X1 experience that enables you to explore
Olympics content using accessibility features like Voice Guidance, the
XFINITY Voice Remote and easy access to closed captioning and video
description set-tings.

GET X1, GET ACCESSIBILITY
XFINITY® on the X1 Operating System has accessibility features built
right in. We’re bringing you innovations like the industry’s first
talking guide, video description, accessible mobile apps and the
XFINITY Voice Remote. All designed to bring the magic of entertainment
to everyone. If XFINITY is available in your area, visit
xfinity.com/accessibility<http://xfinity.com/accessibility> to learn more and call the Comcast
Accessibility Support Center for Customers with Disabilities at
855-270-0379 to get X1.

Sincerely,
Tom Wlodkowski
Vice President, Accessibility
Comcast
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