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 Magalie  Roman  Salas 
 Office  of  the  Secretary 
 Federal  Communications  Commission 
 445  Twelfth  Street,  S.  W.,  TW-  A325 
 Washington,  D.  C.  20554 


 Dear  Ms.  Salas: 
 RE:  COMMENTS  ON  NOTICE  OF  PROPOSED  RULEMAKING 
 IN  THE  MATTER  OF  VIDEO  DESCRIPTION  OF  VIDEO  PROGRAMMING 


 I  am  a  blind  person,  and  a  member  of  the  National  Federation 
 of  the  Blind.  I  support  descriptive  video.  I  think  the 
 first  priority  should  be  to  give  textual  information 
 displayed  on  the  screen,  but  not  spoken.  This  would  include 
 phone  numbers  and  addresses  displayed  on  commercials,  local 
 weather,  and  identification  of  speakers  on  news  or 
 documentary  programs.  Possibly,  once  producers  are  made 
 aware  of  the  problem,  they  could  just  put  such 
 information  in  to  the  program  or  commercial,  and  not  need 
 descriptive  video. 
 I'd  like  to  be  able  to  get  my  local  weather  from  the  Weather 
 Channel,  TV  listings  from  the  TV  Guide  Channel,  and  notices 
 about  community  events  from  the  public  access  channels. 
 I  also  enjoy  descriptions  on  nature  and  mystery  programs. 
 On  nature  programs,  I  like  to  know  what  the  animals  look 
 like  and  what  they're  doing,  which  is  often  hard  to  find  out 
 without  descriptions.  On  mystery  or  action  shows,  the 
 climax  is  often  nothing  but  exciting  music.  I  know  they 
 caught  the  bad  guys,  but  I  usually  don't  know  how  they  did 
 it,  if  the  show  is  not  described.  However,  I  think  that 
 entertainment  should  be  a  second  priority,  as  it  will 
 probably  be  more  difficult  to  implement  than  describing 
 textual  information. 
 Thank  you. 
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