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All prime time TV shows now have to be accessible. How Toronto could become a world leader in captioning and describing
As I mentioned in my column two weeks ago, it’s a Golden Age for TV and films. Most of us are familiar with closed captioning. Just as one streaming example, Netflix has more than 5,000 titles in its U.S. library, and at last count only 1,063 have audio description in English, and only 430 have audio description in any of 33 languages from Arabic to Ukrainian. Sign Up NowWhy can’t Toronto become a global centre of excellence for captioning and describing? There are half a million deaf and hard of hearing Ontarians, and another 200,000 are blind and low vision.
Source: The Star December 13, 2019 18:11 UTC
