More Screens, Lucea, and RTCG’s MNE Play launch a pioneering pilot to make television truly accessible to blind and visually impaired viewers.

For decades, “accessibility” in television has meant a specific, well known toolkit: subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, sign language interpretation, audio description, voiceover tracks. These tools matter, and they have opened television to millions of people who were previously locked out of it.

But they all share one blind spot literally.

For viewers who are blind or visually impaired, the standard accessibility playbook still assumes there is one way to be blind, and one way to fix it: describe what’s happening out loud. In reality, blindness is not a single condition. It is a spectrum from total blindness with no light perception, to tunnel vision, blurred central vision, loss of contrast sensitivity, and dozens of other visual impairments, each shaping how a person perceives (or doesn’t perceive) a screen in a completely different way.

Today, we’re proud to announce something new.

More Screens, together with Lucea from Slovenia and Montenegro’s national public broadcaster RTCG, has launched a pilot on MNE Play testing a technology that reimagines how video content is delivered to blind and visually impaired audiences, not as a single audio track bolted onto a broadcast, but as 11 distinct viewing modes, each engineered to match a different type of visual impairment.

As far as we know, this makes RTCG the first public broadcaster in the world to implement this kind of adaptive, multi-mode accessibility technology at a national level.

Why This Matters ?

Accessibility legislation across Europe and globally has done important work pushing broadcasters toward baseline compliance: closed captions, audio description, sign language windows. These are necessary. But they were designed around a simplified idea of disability, treating “blind” as a single checkbox to tick rather than a spectrum of real, different human experiences.

The truth is:

• Someone with tunnel vision doesn’t need the same visual adaptation as someone with loss of peripheral vision.
• Someone with low contrast sensitivity experiences a screen completely differently than someone with total blindness.
• A single audio-description track, however well produced, cannot serve all of them equally.

This is the gap our pilot is built to close.

What We Built

Working with Lucea and RTCG, More Screens developed a system where every piece of video content is processed into 11 different presentation modes, each corresponding to a distinct category of visual impairment. Instead of forcing every visually impaired viewer into the same generic experience, MNE Play can now deliver a version of the content that is actually shaped for how that individual sees or doesn’t see the world.

It’s a shift from “one-size-fits-all accessibility” to genuinely personalized accessibility content that adapts to the viewer, not the other way around.

Beyond Compliance

Subtitles, sign language, and voiceover were the first, essential chapter of media accessibility. They opened the door. But they were built to solve yesterday’s problem in the simplest way possible. This pilot is about writing the next chapter, one where accessibility isn’t a regulatory checkbox, but a design principle. One where “available everywhere” finally starts to mean “available to everyone.”

What’s Next ?

This is a pilot and we’re treating it as the beginning of a conversation, not the end of one. We’re actively gathering feedback from the blind and visually impaired community in Montenegro to refine and expand the technology, with the goal of bringing it to more platforms, more broadcasters, and more countries.

If you’re a broadcaster, platform operator, or accessibility organization interested in learning more about this technology or in bringing it to your own audience we’d love to talk.

We’re excited to share that More Screens will be exhibiting at IBC 2026, taking place 11–14 September at RAI Amsterdam. You’ll find our team at Stand 1.F11, where we’ll be showcasing this exciting pilot.

Would you like to schedule a meeting with us at the show? Just reply to this email or reach out to infoobfsctd-5d2147@morescreens.com, and we’ll set aside time to meet.