Our February meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 20 at Noon at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna. Our speaker will be Vicki Kipp from PBS Wisconsin Engineering. Her program will be on the FCC’s TV Audio Description Rules. The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (CVAA) established audio description requirements for the top 25 TV markets and was later extended to additional DMAs. It took effect in Milwaukee in 2015, Green Bay-Appleton in 2021, and Madison in 2023. On October 17, 2023, the FCC adopted the Audio Description Second Report and Order, which phases in audio description requirements for an additional ten markets every year until all markets are covered. The CVAA 2021 2nd R & O will take effect in the La Crosse-Eau Claire market in 2027, in the Wausau-Rhinelander, Rockford, and Duluth-Superior markets in 2029, and in the Marquette market in 2032. Learn why Audio Description (AD) exists, what the FCC requirements are, and how to produce quality audio descriptions.

The meeting will be available on Zoom if you can not make it in person. See the newsletter for the Zoom information.

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