How Do the Blind Watch the Olympics? NBC Helps Them Hear It From: R&D Magazine - 08/17/2016 NBC is airing the Olympics in prime time with additional narrators who simply report what's happening on screen - a sort of closed captioning for the visually impaired. Most viewers won't even know the additional narrators are there; to hear them, you need to turn on special cable-box settings to activate their audio track. But their running blow-by-blow can open things up for the blind, who at best get an incomplete picture from traditional sportscasting that takes visuals for granted. Read the entire article at: http://www.rdmag.com/news/2016/08/how-do-blind-watch-olympics-nbc-helps-them-hear-it https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2016/08/how-do-blind-watch-olympics-nbc-helps-them-hear-it Links: Accessible User Interfaces Deadline http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0802/DA-16-881A1.pdf Descriptive Video Works http://www.descriptivevideoworks.com