A grant awarded to National Public Radio (NPR) and the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media to research and develop a prototype systems for delivering captions and audio descriptions via HD radio.

NCAM's fellow Access division at WGBH produces captioning and description for every kind of media created (television, feature films, DVD, Web- and mobile device-based).

Researching accessibility gaps within communication technologies used in the transportation industry.

As the nation's theaters make the transition from analog or traditional film projection to projection of digital files, The Media Access Group at WGBH continues to work with digital equipment manufacturers, studios, digital cinema packaging companies and theater chains to ensure that access features (captioning and description) are a built-in feature in cinema servers which ingest and play out film files within auditoriums.

An NCAM-led initiative to enhance the nation’s emergency warning systems to better serve people with sensory disabilities.

This project explored solutions to enable local television stations to better serve disabled audiences by offering automatic speech processing of on-screen text and graphics for viewers who are blind or have low vision, and to prioritize on-screen text and graphics with captions for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing.

A publication of the Beyond the Text project.

A project to develop technical solutions for delivering captioned content to iPods, cell phones, PDAs and other mobile devices.

Providing an audio interface so blind and visually impaired viewers can operate a set-top box.

dtvaccess.org is a site maintained by WGBH's Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media to provide information on accessing captioning and video description in digital television.

Developing solutions that will make in-flight communication and entertainment systems, and the programs and services offered on them, accessible to people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or visually impaired.

Making movie theaters and films accessible accessible to everyone.

Research on speech navigation solutions for home media center platforms, which typically rely on complex onscreen menus which are not accessible to people who are blind and are difficult to use for people who have low vision.

NCAM-created resources for producing accessible multimedia and Web sites.