NAB Working on Best Practices for Accessible Emergency Info
NAB has produced a working draft of best practices for broadcasters making text crawls and other visual information accessible in emergencies, the trade group said in a quarterly status report submitted to the FCC Media Bureau Friday in docket 12-107.…
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Broadcast industry professionals are reviewing the draft, as will accessibility advocates, said NAB. The association “remains confident that, in most cases, emergency information conveyed by visual images is accessible because stations run accompanying text crawls that provide the same information, if not more, and can be converted to speech,” the filing said.