Two groups representing those with vision problems want emergency alerts...
Two groups representing those with vision problems want emergency alerts to “take priority over programming that is described,” the groups reported telling FCC Consumer & Governmental Affairs and Media bureau staff. “Lengthy alerts such as school closures can impede described…
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content.” But TV stations’ contention that such alerts are transmitted by images and not text is “asserting that a device does not exist that would translate that image to” text and to speech, said the American Council of the Blind and American Foundation for the Blind. The groups disagree with that contention, said an ex parte filing posted Monday in docket 12-107 (http://xrl.us/boc5io). Broadcasters have sought three years to comply with coming FCC rules on making emergency information accessible to the disabled, but the industry had “ample time during the original negotiations for” a 2010 disabilities law and through an FCC advisory committee on the law “to come to grips with this technology,” the advocates said.