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WGBHWGBH is Boston, Massachusetts' longtime public television and public radio station (PBS and NPR affiliates, respectively). WGBH also produces many shows for both networks, including nearly a third of PBS's prime-time TV. They began in 1951.
WGBH is also a leader in services for the disabled. They invented television closed captioning and audio description, created the Rear Window Captioning system for movies and the Descriptive Video Service (DVS).
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- WGBH-TV 2 (DT 19) Boston
- WGBX-TV 44 (DT 43) Boston
- WGBY-TV 57 Springfield
- WGBH 89.7 Boston
- WCAI 90.1 Woods Hole
- WNAN 91.1 Nantucket
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WGBH/Media Access
Developing technologies that make TV and other media more accessible to disabled people.
http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/access/
Enabled Online
News of persons with disabilities, special reports, and opinions.
http://www.EnabledOnline.com
Metropolitan Washington Ear
Free reading service for blind and print-handicapped persons. Service is delivered via closed circuit radio, interactive telephone dial-in, and Internet audio streaming.
http://www.washear.org/
AbleTV.net
Activities, information and assistive technologies of the disabled community through video streaming with audio description and closed captioning.
http://www.abletv.net
Suite101 Disabilities
Monthly articles on the disability world online, links, and discussion groups.
http://www.suite101.com/topics/page.cfm/378
International Disability News Ticker
Disability news headlines from around the world.
http://www.abilityinfo.com/ticker.html
Inclusion Daily Express
A subscription email service reporting on the movement toward full community inclusion, self-determination and human rights for people who have developmental and other disabilities.
http://www.InclusionDaily.com
Disability Discoveries
Syndicated column by Bill Micklitz on "Disabilities With a Positive Edge".
http://www.disabilitiesunlimited.org
Yahoo! News Full Coverage-Disabilities and the Disabled
News stories, editorials, audio and video links.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/World/Disabilities_and_the_Disabled/
Steve Gold's Nuggets
News and alerts on enforcing the Americans With Disabilities Act.
http://www.stevegoldada.com
National Council on Disabilities Bulletin
Monthly publication of issues and news affecting people with disabilities in the United States.
http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/bulletins/03bulletins.html
InTouch Networks
Online reading service for people who are blind, visually impaired and physically disabled. Stories from major magazines and newspapers are broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
http://www.intouchnetworks.org
Broken Wings
The first television series to focus solely on the lives of disabled people. Each of the 13 episodes profiles the struggles, dreams, and accomplishments of an adult or child with a specific form of disability, such as blindness, dwarfism, or paraplegia. From Amphion Productions.
http://www.motionmasters.com/bw/
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