description devices, and to increase the time movie theaters have to comply with the rule's captioning and audio description scoping requirements (now 18 months)....
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B. Public Comments Regarding the Effects of the Rule on Small Movie Theaters
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E. Reporting, Recordkeeping, and Other Compliance Requirements
However, the final rule does require that movie theaters disclose to the public information concerning the availability of captioning and audio description for movies shown in their auditoriums...
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Study Goals
understand the usability of alternative formats; To identify characteristics of effective tactile graphics, maps, models, and wayfinding; To determine user preferences for exhibition audio...
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I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
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Overview of Current Media Technologies
A number of institutions have pioneered or prototyped accessibility implementations with captioned exhibits and tactile explorations and/or audio descriptions for select exhibits, such as...
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1.1. Purpose and Need for Rule and Scope of Regulatory Assessment
, subject to a consent decree or settlement, exhibit movies with closed movie captioning or audio description. ...
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Purpose of Proposed Rule
description, as well as to provide individual captioning and audio-description devices for patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing or blind or have low vision. ...
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Audio Description
Audio description of video provides information about actions, characters, scene changes, on-screen text, and other visual content....
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1.2. 2014 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
On August 1, 2014, the Department issued the 2014 NPRM proposing to require movie theaters to provide closed movie captioning and audio description at all scheduled showings of a movie...
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Major Provisions
In no case would movie theaters be required to create their own captioning or audio descriptions for movies. ...
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1.3. Public Comments on Initial Regulatory Assessment and Department Responses
Comments Regarding the Cost of Captioning and Audio Description Equipment In the Initial RA, the Department estimated the costs of compliance with the proposed rule by estimating the...
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Costs and Benefits
disabilities currently have consistent access to movie theaters that provide closed captioning and audio description. ...
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Audio Elements
Audio Elements Tactile exhibit elements should have carefully scripted audio information, description, or interpretation that is explicitly connected to the tactile experience of the...
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1.4.2. Minimum Scoping Requirements for Captioning and Audio Description Devices
The Department has lowered the minimum required scoping for captioning and audio description devices in order to ensure that the scoping requirements sufficiently provide access to individuals...
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1.4.3. Notice Requirements
Movie theaters must provide notice of the availability of captioning and audio description on all communications and advertisements listing movie showings and times that are provided at...
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§ 36.303(g) Movie theater captioning and audio description
(g) Movie theater captioning and audio description—...
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1.5. Major Provisions of Final Rule
First, the captioning and audio description requirements of this rule apply only to movie theaters with auditoriums that exhibit digital movies. ...
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Current Technology
Current Technology While hands on exploration is important, technology provides expanded opportunities to interface with exhibits through magnification or description....
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Voice quality
Voice quality Descriptions delivered through audio files can be recorded human voices or synthetic speech....
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Hardware and software
Audio files can be formatted as .wav, mp3, .mov, or other files....
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Design parameter considerations
for Accessible Media for the Whitney Museum put forward the following design parameters for shopping for appropriate technologies: Allowance for synchronization of caption text and audio...
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Appropriate Situational Applications of Technology
Descriptions can be audio files of recorded human voices, or text files of descriptions that can be read by text-to-speech utilities or screen-reader software....
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A. Movie Basics, Captioning, and Audio Description Generally
Audio description fills in information about the visual content of a movie where there are no corresponding audio elements in the film. ...
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2.1.2. Compliance Year
Under the final rule, movie theaters will have 18 months to purchase the necessary captioning and audio description equipment to comply with the rule. ...