HITN and Dicapta Join Forces to Make Network’s Content material/Programming More Available to Persons With Sensory Disabilities

HITN and Dicapta Join Forces to Make Network’s Content material/Programming More Available to Persons With Sensory Disabilities

BROOKLYN, N.Y.–(Organization WIRE)–HITN, the top Spanish-language network that offers academic and entertainment content to a lot more than 40 million households across the United States, introduced currently its partnership with Dicapta to make its programming extra accessible to individuals with sensory disabilities.

Guaranteeing equivalent entry to facts for individuals with listening to and visible impairments, this partnership is part of HITN’s ongoing determination to carry loved ones-helpful, academic information to Hispanic homes nationwide for the betterment of minority communities. The 1st program to showcase Dicapta’s media accessibility know-how was “Mundo Salvaje con Ron Magill” which premiered its third year on Jan. 31.

“We are quite happy to be doing the job alongside Dicapta to make our demonstrates a lot more inclusive and what much better way to kickstart our collaboration than with ‘Mundo Salvaje con Ron Magill,’ an audience’s favorite and one particular of our most routinely viewed wildlife packages suitable for the entire family members to learn and be influenced to maintain nature”, mentioned Guillermo Sierra, Head of Television and Digital Solutions of HITN.

Dicapta’s know-how offers substantial-high quality Spanish audio descriptions and captions for Television programming. Consumers will be able to conveniently and conveniently accessibility the audio descriptions and captions by applying the downloadable application All4Entry to watch their media information on a tv, tablet or other media product.

“Adding written content to the All4Accessibility Clearinghouse assures that no make any difference the place HITN’s one of a kind content material goes, it will be available for audiences with sensory disabilities. Applying braille displays, mobile products, or tablets, audio descriptions and captions of the programming will be readily available everywhere, anytime” mentioned Maria-Victoria Diaz, President and founding companion of Dicapta. “We are so fortunate to have assist from the US Office of Education in this endeavor. We at Dicapta share HITN’s mission of selling Latinos’ instructional, cultural, and socio-financial aspirations in the United States by way of top quality material, now available for Latinos with sensory disabilities” Diaz added.

To use Dicapta’s All4Accessibility application, users will have to adhere to the pursuing guidelines:

  1. Obtain the All4Obtain from the Application Retail outlet or Google Engage in Retailer.
  2. Participate in your programming on your Television, personal computer, or any other device. Stay clear of the use of headphones since the application have to ‘listen’ to the audio of the software to recognize it.
  3. On the app, pick “Start” and then select “Press in this article to synchronize.”
  4. The moment the application is synchronized, pick out the accessibility component you want to use.
  5. Take pleasure in your available program.

About HITN-Tv set

HITN-Tv set is a major Spanish-language media firm that features instructional and cultural programming for the full family members. It reaches more than 40 million viewers in the US and Puerto Rico through DIRECTV, DIRECTV NOW, DISH Community, AT&T U-verse Tv, Verizon FiOS Tv set, Comcast, Charter Spectrum, Mediacom, CenturyLink Prism and Altice. For far more details, be sure to go to www.hitn.org.

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