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School For The Blind Students Experience Holiday Show Through Assistive Technology

By Melony Roy

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Over a dozen high school students from the Overbrook School for the Blind experienced the Comcast holiday spectacular in the company's lobby on JFK Boulevard with the help of audio description

"It was great because I couldn't see the play and the audio was really helpful. It was letting me know what was going on."

VP of the Comcast Foundation, Fred Maass says the event was part of Comcast's commitment to making all of their experiences accessible to everyone.

"For the first time we've included close captioning and audio description into the Comcast experience so that people of all abilities can enjoy everything that we have to offer."

According to the U.S. census, there are 8.1 million people with visual disability.

Executive Director , Gerald Kitzhoffer says the School for the Blind has partnered with Comcast for their new technology initiatives.

"Technology is really the window to the world for our kids it's really all about accessible technology and Comcast is doing things that way so were glad to be here."

Following the show, the students toured Comcast's Accessibility Lab.

Maass says "it's a place where, as we develop products for people with disabilities it becomes a testing ground so we'll invite our community partners that serve people with disabilities in to help us get it right."

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