Sometimes it steers people to other sources of information, such as government agencies. Many blind people have reported calling stations only to find out that such information is not retained by the stations. Without the information being voiced as it is displayed in print visually, there is simply no way blind people can get the data. Focus on needed information instead of networks. As noted above, the need for audio presentation of emergency, news, and other print-displayed information, is as likely to involve local stations as networks.
Networks are the wrong target.
Any proposed regulation addressed to meet our needs must focus on what information needs to be provided rather than on who is being regulated. Such an approach would cause all programmers, advertisers, and stations to think twice before presenting printed information without some other method of presenting it to their blind audiences. Needs of Spanish-speaking blind people. Paragraph 30 of the NPRM notes that mandated SAP channel use for audio description would put blind users in competition with Spanish-speaking users. We would note that blind people constitute a cross-section of the society.