Optik TV accessibility settings

There are two ways to set up Closed Captioning on your TELUS TV Digital Box:

To turn Closed Captioning on:

Turn Closed Captioning off

You can also customize your Closed Captioning settings and choose from three text sizes, eight colours, opaque or semi-transparent lettering and multiple styles or background colours. To do this:

: If a program you expect to have Closed Captioning does not have Closed Captioning, set to and to from the television settings menu. You will temporarily lose any customized Closed Captioning settings with Standard Closed Captioning.

There are two ways to set up Described Video on your TELUS TV Digital Box:

There are two ways to set up Descriptive Video on your Optik TV or Wireless Digital Box:

To temporarily enable Descriptive Video:

To permanently enable Descriptive Video:

: If you have set the Descriptive Video to in and want to temporarily turn Descriptive video off:

Descriptive Video will be turned off until the next time the PVR or Wireless Digital Box is powered on.

Descriptive Video has limited availability. To learn more about what programming has a Descriptive Video audio track up to 5 days into the future, please visit the

Described Video guide

.

To change the font size of all text on screen from your TELUS TV Digital Box:

Your TELUS TV Digital Box must be on Android 12 to take advantage of text scaling. If you do not see the Text Scaling option within the Accessibility menu, please update your TELUS TV Digital Box by going to and select .

Your TELUS TV Digital Box is equipped with TalkBack, a screen reader service from Google that is pre-installed on Android TV devices. To set this up:

For information on how to set up Closed Captioning or Described Video in the TELUS TV+ app, please visit the

How to use the TELUS TV+ app page

.