The policy will be revised accordingly. NIH has a large number of videos that are not captioned, and offices are urged to only use open-captioned videos in the future. Showing uncaptioned videos at any NIH-sponsored event that is open to the public or to all NIH employees is contrary to NIH policy. Web-cams on NIH web sites are also uncaptioned. The NIH ORS is looking into various technologies to enable them to caption web cams.
Inaccessible laboratories are also a problem.
The NIH, as part of DHHS, is charged with increasing the hiring and retention of employees with disabilities. This is difficult if the physical infrastructure eliminates certain jobs from consideration. It also prevents NIH from being able to utilize the full potential of the available applicant pool. As laboratories are renovated, one or two accessible work stations will be incorporated into each lab. NIH is in the early stages of learning to identify barriers.