Blind and vision impaired

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Call for set-top boxes to be replaced with new accessible models

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Vision Australia has called for the digital set-top boxes distributed to blind and vision impaired people in Mildura and regional South Australia to be replaced with newly-developed models which include feature such as talking menus.

These boxes did not exist when digital switchover took place in Mildura and regional South Australia in 2010, but prototypes are currently being trialled as part of the Digital Switchover Taskforce’s Household Assistance Scheme in regional Victoria.

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Television
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US news organisations argue for audio description exemptions

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The National Association of Broadcasters and Fox News Channel have written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), requesting that they are given exemptions from audio description requirements.

The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, which became law last October, reinstated audio description (called video description in the US) quotas for television. The FCC is currently establishing a timetable and rules for the service.

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Television
Blind or vision impaired
Audio description
News
Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act

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