The National Association of Broadcasters said there is still essentially no practical way to provide audio descriptions of “dynamic” visual emergency information, like weather radar maps, for the blind and visually impaired.
Currently broadcasters do not have to do that under a five-year waiver of the requirement that “emergency information provided visually during non-newscast video programming be made audibly accessible to individuals who are blind or visually impaired.”
Actually, the requirement was supposed to kick in in 2015, but broadcasters are on their second waiver.
In a congressionally mandated report to the FCC this month and midway through that waiver—which expires in 2023—the National Association of Broadcasters said that the American Council of the Blind (ACB) and the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), which support the waiver, agree with their take on the current status of technology.
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