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Kathy Taylor

Kathy Taylor

Former Secretary of Commerce for the State of Oklahoma

Aug 24, 2026

15:47
So what is Canton Main Street and when did you sign up for that?
15:52
So that began in 2015.
15:55
We had a much larger group back then, and I was on the original group.
15:59
But at some point, I decided to get off because I had other things going on.
16:08
But before that, we had a small merchant group, which I helped facilitate.
16:13
I seemed to be the good organizer because I could get around and I could get out of the office and talk to the merchants.
16:20
So about four or five of us started.
21:16
What is, so what is the building being used for now? And then we'll talk about what it's going to be hopefully used for in a
8:40
Kathy, first of all, let's start with what these proposals are, specifically the most widely used access service by visually impaired people, audio description.
8:51
There are a number of different proposals which we've set out in our code.
8:55
Some of them are legal requirements around things like quotas.
8:59
So there's a two-year quota ramping up to a four-year quota of 10% of program hours should be accompanied by audio description.
9:08
Although we're proposing earlier interim quotas to make sure that streamers have to start providing access services as soon as possible.
9:16
There are other requirements that I think are just as important actually as the quotas around making people aware of the features that are available, and we've said in our code that the requirement should be that you tell your audiences which programs carry audio description.
9:33
And then finally, there are requirements around reporting to Ofcom every year, not just on how much descri- audio description you provided, but also on how good it is, what its quality's like, and how, how usable it is.
10:31
You'll be aware that most users are still deeply dissatisfied with these percentages, at 10% not coming anywhere near the requirements for TV services in the UK, which visually impaired people don't feel are, are anywhere near high enough.

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