Creating a mainstream, accessible, inclusive media platform for people with disabilities

I applaud diversity in media, as demonstrated in this piece about political pundits.

I'd also like to mention that [with]tv is working to set up a mainstream, accessible, inclusive media platform for people with disabilities.

[with]tv's founder has written a post recently for the consideration of the disability community - and everyone else. You can read the rest over there....


with]tv means to get the message out to everyone in the right way. We begin broadcasting as a mainstream, accessible, inclusive media platform for people with disabilities. Having a hard time imagining what I envision? OK. How is this? Go home and watch TV for one week, 168 hours. Now imagine that of all the people you saw on TV more than 20%+ were people with disabilities. Now imagine that for all the people behind the camera 20%+ in all departments and at all levels of the company!

Imagine that all the commercials you see are close captioned, narrated for the blind and have actors with disabilities as principals, background actors and voice over talent.

Imagine that many, but not all, story lines were concerned with issues directly related to our lifestyle. Now imagine that all this content was not only entertaining for ALL viewers but along with all commercials was close captioned and narrated for the blind. Imagine that in addition to news, weather, sports and information shows we were creating drama, comedy, variety, reality shows and that all the major producers in the industry were creating shows for us too. Now imagine this content is available on your TV, computer, cell phone, and all over the world in other languages. That is what would give us what we want. That is what we envision at [with]tv. That is what we intend to do, not to ask others to do part of for us.

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Now we need advertisers, corporate sponsors, media company mentors and we need investors. We have everything else. We need YOU and others just like you.