Video Receivers and Players
COAT Position Statement: Ensure Access to Video Programming Receivers and Play-Back Devices
COAT recommendation: Require all devices used to receive or display video programming simultaneously transmitted with sound to be designed, developed, and fabricated to allow people with disabilities to control, through non-visual and other means accessible to and usable by people with disabilities, the receipt, display, navigation and selection of video programming.
COAT Applauds LG Electronics/Zenith for Open Captioned Video on How To Install a Digital-to-Analog TV Converter Box
Washington, D.C., November 20, 2008. – The Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT) applauds LG Electronics/Zenith for providing open captioning on an Internet video clip about the company’s digital-to-analog television converter box. The video clip allows all viewers to see a text version of the audio, providing greater clarification of how to hook up the digital converter box to older television sets.
Closed Caption button on remote.