Final Regulatory Assessment and Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Final Rule - Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations - Movie Theaters; Movie Captioning and Audio Description
3.2.2.4. Summary of Baselines
The Low Accessibility, Medium Accessibility, and High Accessibility baselines are summarized in Table 3-11. The primary analysis uses the Medium Accessibility baseline in the calculation of the estimated costs. In the Medium Accessibility baseline, approximately 70 percent of auditoriums are equipped to provide closed movie captioning and approximately 70 percent are equipped to provide audio description. The costs of the final rule using the Low Accessibility and High Accessibility baselines are estimated as sensitivity analyses in Sections 4.2.1 and 4.2.2, respectively.
Table 3-11 : Summary of Potential Captioning and Audio Description Baselines (2015)
Technology |
Low Accessibility |
Medium Accessibility |
High Accessibility |
Closed Movie Captioning |
58.1% |
70.3% |
92.3% |
Audio Description |
57.6% |
69.8% |
91.6% |
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