Tag Archives: Accessibility

Beefing Up Video Description Requirements?

Commission seeks comment on steps to improve, expand accessibility of video-described programming Way back at the dawn of the century (the 21st Century, that is), the FCC adopted rules requiring video providers to include “video descriptions” in their transmission. “Video description” involves the insertion, into natural pauses in the program’s dialogue, of audio-narrated descriptions of … Continue Reading

Telecom Providers and Manufacturers: Accessibility-Related Recordkeeping and Certification Requirements Are Now in Effect

For some time already many, if not most, communications service providers and equipment makers have had to ensure accessibility to the disabled; now they've got to keep records of those efforts AND separately certify to the FCC that they're in fact keeping those records.… Continue Reading
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