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Comcast RSS Feed - Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 9:30 AM NBCUniversal Enhances Accessibility For Its Coverage of The Olympic Games Paris 2024 Closed captioning, which provides text of the coverage audio for viewers who are Deaf or hard of hearing, will be available for all Olympic and Paralympic events airing across NBCU’s broadcast and cable networks. NBCUniversal will also provide closed captioning for all digital livestreams with commentary across Peacock, NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app. More audio description services – interspersing broadcast audio with skilled voices describing Olympic and Paralympic scenes and context – will be available for viewers who are blind or visually impaired for the Paris Olympics than any previous Games. All coverage on NBC, including daytime, primetime, and late night, and the <https://www.nbcsports.com/pressbox/olympics/press-releases/gold-zone-whip-around-show-makes-peacock-debut-during-nbcuniversals-coverage-of-olympic-games-paris-2024> Gold Zone whip-around show on Peacock, will feature audio description provided by Descriptive Video Works. In a first for a U.S. broadcaster, audio description services for NBC coverage will be provided in stereo, enhancing the quality of sound for viewers. For the Paralympic Games, NBC Sports will provide live audio description for all broadcast and cable programming, including those aired outside primetime hours, as well as on all simulstreams. Additionally, improved web content accessibility, including keyboard navigation, color contrast and support for screen readers, will be available on NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com, the NBC Sports app. Livestreams and replays which offer audio description will have English audio description as a language choice within the players on these digital platforms. To easily find all events with audio description, click <https://www.nbcolympics.com/audio-description> here. To contact NBCUniversal about issues related to closed captions, please send an email to ccfeedb...@nbcuni.com <mailto:ccfeedb...@nbcuni.com> . For audio description issues, email adfeedb...@nbcuni.com <mailto:adfeedb...@nbcuni.com> “Providing paths for the widest possible audience in the U.S. to enjoy the Olympic and Paralympic Games continues to be a key goal of our Olympics mission, and offering closed captioning on all live coverage with the most audio description ever is another important way we are cultivating inclusivity in our production,” said Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics. All of this audio description and closed captioning will be available to Comcast Xfinity customers who experience the Games on the Xfinity X1 platform, including on the live Olympic Games coverage delivered in 4K, on Xfinity Stream, and on Xfinity Flex. “For over a decade, Comcast has been committed to making the moments that matter accessible to everyone, and NBCUniversal’s enhanced accessibility features for this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games are a part of this mission,” said Tom Wlodkowski, Vice President of Accessibility at Comcast. https://corporate.comcast.com/press/releases/nbcuniversal-enhances-accessibility-coverage-olympic-games-paris-2024 David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training services by visiting WWW.ScreenReaderTraining.com <http://www.screenreadertraining.com/> Am Yisrael Chai The Nation of Israel Lives! JAWS Certified, 2022 <https://www.freedomscientific.com/Training/Certification/> NVDA Certified Expert <https://certification.nvaccess.org/> Subscribe to the Tech-VI announcement list to receive news, events and information regarding the blindness assistive technology field. Email: tech-vi+subscr...@groups.io <mailto:tech-vi+subscr...@groups.io> www.DavidGoldfield.com <http://www.davidgoldfield.com/> -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/029401dacee0%24c8962450%2459c26cf0%24%40comcast.net.
