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Broadcasting is one of the most important infrastructures of the society. It plays a key role in information exchange to ensure safety and security of population in natural and man-made disasters. Broadcasting is also playing an important role as one of the most familiar and easy-to-use media that can provide information to anyone. It is expected, therefore, the broadcasting keeps these roles and its services should be provided anytime, anywhere, and to anyone with sufficient accessibility. In this chapter, various technologies which improve accessibility of broadcasting will be discussed through introducing research and development in Japan and the vision of accessible broadcasting in the future will be presented.
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Digital TV broadcasting enables 5.1 surround audio. Recently the number of programs with 5.1 surround audio is increasing, which causes similar issue that programs with 5.1 surround audio cannot provide audio description because of lack of audio slots. This is not a standardization issue but an issue of facility equipping of each broadcasting station.
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Ito, T. (2015). R&D for Accessible Broadcasting in Japan. In: Biswas, P., Duarte, C., Langdon, P., Almeida, L. (eds) A Multimodal End-2-End Approach to Accessible Computing. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6708-2_12
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