DirecTV and Dish Network reiterated their argument that broadcasters and...
DirecTV and Dish Network reiterated their argument that broadcasters and other video programming owners should have primary responsibility for converting “crawls” and other visual emergency information into an aural form, while distributors and providers “should be responsible for passing through…
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such aural information on existing secondary audio channels,” DirecTV said in comments in docket 12-107 (http://xrl.us/bobvuw). The FCC should place primary responsibility “directly upon those who create the crawls and are therefore most likely to be in a position to correct any problem that may arise,” it said in a filing recounting a meeting with DirecTV, Dish and staff from the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau’s Disability Rights Office about implementation of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA). Because both DBS companies carry the secondary audio feed of many broadcasters across the country, “they will be able to implement a regime that uses such feeds virtually seamlessly for those stations,” it said. The National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH TV and Radio Boston developed procedures “for enabling real-time conversion of on-screen text into speech output,” it said in an ex parte filing in the docket (http://xrl.us/bobvvv). NCAM also addressed display conflicts between captions and on-screen graphics by developing methods of prioritizing text and graphics messages within automated display systems, it said about a teleconference with staff from the Media Bureau and Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau. NCAM said it worked with broadcast stations “to make this data available via the secondary audio program analog channel or auxiliary DTV audio channels."