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Commission weighs broadcasting meetings as ADA captioning and production costs rise
Summary
Staff told commissioners that meeting audio-description and edited closed-captioning requirements will add substantial production hours; staff proposed suspending routine broadcasts and recording selectively for items flagged in advance to manage limited part-time resources and ADA editing demands.
City media staff told the Parks and Recreation Commission Dec. 18 that upcoming ADA requirements (closed captioning and audio-description for archived recordings) would increase production workload substantially. Bill, the city's media production specialist, explained manually edited captions and audio descriptions are required for archived broadcasts and estimated that a typical…
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