Can the digital television transition help increase accessibility?
The Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology has raised the issue that the Digital television transition may reduce television accessibility to both the hearing/visually impaired and blind communities.
Sounds to me like an opportunity to not only assure that closed caption and video description technologies aren’t left behind, but also use this as a way to increase accessibility to on screen guides; which are totally inaccessible for the blind.
And while on the subject of descriptive television check out another article where the coalition responds to a call for more closed caption by asking all not to forget video description.
