Video Description & Closed Captioning: Two Sides of Same Coin, Says TV Technology

October 15, 2009:--Online magazine TV Technology says that video description and closed captioning are two sides of the same coin. Craig Johnston, the author, points out that descriptions provide blind and visually impaired viewers an audio narrator's depiction of the video portion while captions provide deaf and hard of hearing viewers the video text of what's spoken. He also notes how HR 3101 would remedy the current situation of no required video description resulting from the TV and motion picture industries getting the previous FCC rules for video description tossed out. Read full article.

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Congressman Ed Markey in photo of Congressional hearing room dais. Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA), center, introduced the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009 (H.R. 3101) on June 26, 2009.

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