Real-time video description (broadcast TV)

Some text from a message by Charles Crawford of the American Council to the
Blind which seems relevant to our earlier discussion of Checkpoint 1.2,
especially some of the examples we were discussing.
 
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>To: ACB-L@acb.org

>From: Charles Crawford <CCrawford@acb.org>

>Subject: Bad weather and DVS rule?

>

>Hi Everyone,

>

> I am very glad to report that our local tv stations have 

> broken

> into programming on two separate days to warn of sever thunderstorms and 

> potential tornados. Not only that, hbut they even described exactly 

> where the different colors on the weather map were by geographic 

> location. Looks like our advocacy at least in this case resulted in 

> compliance with the FCC rule and certainly argues against the babble we 

> all heard about how entertainment description would invite disaster since 

> important informaiton would be ignored.

>

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