Charity Makes Web Video Accessible to More People

By Nicole Wallace

The migration of television programs, movies, and other video content to the Internet marks the newest challenge to a nonprofit organization that has worked for more than three decades to make broadcast media accessible to people with disabilities.

Thirty-five years ago, WGBH, the public-broadcasting organization in Boston, introduced television captioning with an episode of its cooking series, The French Chef, with Julia Child.

Later the broadcasting group developed