NAB, Consumer Groups: Grant 5-Year Waiver Extension on Audio Description of Emergency Graphics
A request for a five-year extension of waiver of broadcast requirements for audio description of non-text emergency information is “justified and appropriate,” said petitioners NAB, the American Council of the Blind and American Foundation for the Blind, in a meeting…
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last week with staff from the Media and Consumer and Governmental Affairs bureaus, recounted a filing posted Wednesday in docket 12-107. The current waiver expires May 26. “This will allow time for industry to transition to technologies with greater potential for integrating an efficient technical solution,” the filing said. Since most emergency information conveyed through graphics echoes the information in emergency text crawls, and such crawls are already “aurally described,” the extension won’t harm consumers, said the groups.