‘the Wiz Live!’ First Live Entertainment Show Accessible To Visually Disabled People

Lisa de Moraes, Deadline.com
Tue, 12/01/2015 - 5:29pm

Comcast announced this afternoon it will include a national video description pilot program with NBC's broadcast of Broadway musical The Wiz Live! on December 3, making it the first live entertainment program to be accessible to people who have a visual disability in this country. Video description is a narration track that is included between the natural pauses in dialogue that describes the visual elements of a show or movie like facial expressions, settings, costumes…

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