[opendtv] Congress Passes Digital Disability Access Bill
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:29:15 -0400
Congress Passes Digital Disability Access Bill
Bill requires online video captioning, restores FCC's video description rules
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/28/2010 10:31:10 PM
The House Tuesday night passed S. 3828, the Twenty-First Century
Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010.
Among other things, the bill requires the captioning of any online
video that is closed captioned on TV, and asks the FCC to study
captioning of Web-original video. It also requires smart phones and
other mobile devices to be accessible to the disabled, if that is
achievable, and restores the FCC's video description rules thrown out
by the courts in 2002.
The bill passed the Senate last week.
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http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/457794-Congress_Passes_Digital_Disability_Access_Bill.php?rssid=20065
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:s.03828:
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