CLOSED-CAPTIONING THE WEB The Corporation for Public Broadcasting/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is developing technology to bring closed-captioning to the Internet, high-definition television and multimedia. NCAM's director says the group is trying to "stay ahead of the curve," when it comes to making new media more accessible, because it's easier to build in the technology from the start rather than add it on later. "It was clear to us when the World Wide Web was beginning to take off that this was a new media with innate barriers to people with disabilities." The Internet project is exploring how HTML code can be written so that text is picked up by the screenreader used by visually impaired users, and descriptions substituted for some of the important graphics and pictures. For a prototype, check out . (Broadcasting & Cable 13 May 96 p64)