What can be done, and what is being done, to improve the availability of captioning and description during emergencies?
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More enforcement (esp. for visual access)
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Better FCC requirements/enforcement (esp. for b/vi consumers)
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Work with newsroom vendors and industry associations (RTNDA, NAB, NCTA)
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Further R&D on speech recognition
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Outreach and training (for description) of TV stations
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See Starling - NPR Labs