2000.01.06 +: Responding to a U.S.A. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) notice of proposed rulemaking on "Implementation of Video Description of Video Programming", Proceeding FCC 99-353, November 23, 1999, MM Docket No. 99-339, Dr. R. I. Feigenblatt describes a "Scheme to leverage volunteers to produce SAP audio description of TV". Naturally, the scheme we describe can, in principle, also be adapted for annotating recorded end-product video (even after a read-only record is pressed): One candidate is a DVD movie played on a PC, accompanied by an independently produced synchronized description file.
+ Link rot repaired 2001.11.23 (Note: Get a free reader for the PDF file format here; it would be easier if the FCC used a flat ASCII or simple HTML file to make such records more accessible to the blind and VI!)
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