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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

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