Emergency alerts on TV can now be spoken text, not a separate audio description

The US communications regulator proposes a new way for TV channels to make emergency information accessible to people who cannot see. Instead of creating a separate audio track for visual alerts, channels can now just speak the text of a visual crawl.

Broadcasters have had to create separate audio descriptions for visual emergency alerts. This was an extra step. Now, if they put the emergency information in a text crawl, they can just have that text read aloud, simplifying the process.