What Shows Are Being Described? (Canada)

Described Video TV Guide
Video Introducing and Discussing the DV TV Guide Sep '12

The Described Video TV Guide, the DV Guide, was launched on June 1st, 2012 and is maintained on a daily basis by Accessible Media Inc. (AMI).  It was developed in partnership with their Canadian broadcast partners and the Canadian Radio-Television & Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) Described Video Working Group.  The intent of the DV Guide is to build the awareness of described video programming while providing an aggregate daily list of most described video programming from across Canada, to allow a viewer who may benefit from described programming the ability to plan their television watching.

Additional information:

• AMI Services (Sept '12)
• AMI Offers Accessible TV for Everyone (TV Guide CA, July '12)
• (CRTC) Access to TV for people with visual impairments: audio description and described video
  www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/info_sht/b322.htm
• (CRTC) Programming Services Providing Described Video Content:
  www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/publications/reports/rp120229.htm
• (CRTC) Broadcasting Accessibility Fund:
  www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2012/2012-430.htm

(Thanks to Robert Pearson, Director, Accessible Digital Media, AMI, for supplying the information on this page!)

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