Audible Crawl Waiver Needed, Says NAB
FCC waiver of a 2013 rule requiring broadcasters provide audio description on a second audio stream of emergency information conveyed through graphics remains necessary, said an NAB status report posted Wednesday in docket 12-107. “There is still no practical technical…
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solution for broadcasters to convert information conveyed in a dynamic graphic image to speech,” said the report, which has the support of consumer groups. “We believe the audible crawl rule would be rarely invoked because broadcasters usually provide a graphic image merely to illustrate the information conveyed in a textual crawl,” the association said. “NAB is hopeful that neither the waiver nor the rule itself will be necessary at some point in the future.”