[Electronics-talk] Fw: [Braillenote] OT: Fwd: [BCT] Twenty-FirstCentury Communications and Video Accessibility Act is passed
Beverly Heninger
bevie.k at comcast.net
Sat Mar 19 14:04:20 UTC 2011
This is so exciting, thanks to all that have put in there time and
efforts to make this happen.
Beverly Heninger
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>> Thought you'd like to check this out, if you haven't, yet.
>> Original Message --------
>> Subject: [BCT] Twenty-First Century Communications and Video
>> Accessibility Act is passed
>> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:46:34 -0500
>> From: Neal Ewers <neal.ewers at ravenswood.org>
>> Reply-To: bct at lists.blind-planet.com
>> To: Bct <bct at lists.blind-planet.com>
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>>
>> *Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010
>> - Pub. L. 111-260*
>>
>> On October 8, 2010, President Obama signed the Twenty-First Century
>> Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) into law. The CVAA
>> updates federal communications law to increase the access of persons
>> with disabilities to modern communications. The CVAA makes sure that
>> accessibility laws enacted in the 1980s and 1990s are brought up to date
>> with 21^st century technologies, including new digital, broadband, and
>> mobile innovations. The following are highlights of the new law.
>>
>> *__*
>>
>> *_Title I – Communications Access_*
>>
>> * Requires advanced communications services and products to be
>> accessible by people with disabilities. Advanced communications
>> services are defined as (1) interconnected voice over Internet
>> protocol (VoIP) service; (2) non-interconnected VoIP service; (3)
>> electronic messaging service; and (4) interoperable video
>> conferencing service. This includes, for example, text messaging,
>> e-mail, instant messaging, and video communications.
>> * Requires access to web browsers on mobile devices by people who
>> are blind or visually impaired (a “ramp” to the Internet on mobile
>> devices).
>> * Creates industry recordkeeping obligations; requires changes to
>> complaint and enforcement procedures; tightens deadlines for the
>> FCC to respond to consumer complaints; requires biennial reporting
>> by the FCC to Congress; and directs the Comptroller General to
>> issue a five-year report on the FCC’s implementation.
>> * Requires an FCC clearinghouse on accessible communications
>> services and equipment.
>> * Applies the hearing aid compatibility mandates to telephone-like
>> equipment used with advanced communications services.
>> * Updates the definition of telecommunications relay services (TRS)
>> to include people who are deaf-blind and to allow communication
>> between and among different types of relay users.
>> * Requires interconnected and non-interconnected VoIP service
>> providers to contribute to the Interstate TRS Fund.
>> * Directs the allocation of up to $10 million per year from the
>> Interstate TRS Fund for the distribution of specialized equipment
>> to low-income people who are deaf-blind, to enable these
>> individuals to access telecommunications service, Internet access
>> service, and advanced communications.
>> * Authorizes FCC action to ensure reliable and interoperable access
>> to next generation 9‑1‑1 services by people with disabilities.
>>
>> *_Title II – Video Programming _*
>>
>> * Restores video description rules promulgated by the FCC in 2000
>> and authorizes some expansion of those obligations over the next
>> 10+ years.
>> * Requires video programming that is closed captioned on TV to be
>> closed captioned when distributed on the Internet (does not cover
>> programs shown only on the Internet).
>>
>> ·Establishes deadlines for the FCC to respond to requests for exemption
>> from the closed captioning rules.
>>
>> * Requires video programming distributors, providers, and owners to
>> convey emergency information a manner that is accessible to people
>> who are blind or visually impaired.
>> * Expands the requirement for video programming equipment (equipment
>> that shows TV programs) to be capable of displaying closed
>> captions, to devices with screens smaller than 13 inches (e.g.,
>> portable TVs, laptops, smart phones), and requires these devices
>> to be able to pass through video descriptions and emergency
>> information that is accessible to people who are blind or visually
>> impaired, if technically feasible and achievable.
>> * Requires devices designed to record TV programs to pass through
>> closed captions, video description, and emergency information so
>> viewers are able to turn on/off the closed captions and video
>> description when the TV program is played back, if achievable.
>> * Requires interconnection mechanisms (cables) to carry (from the
>> source device to the consumer equipment – e.g., TV set) the
>> information necessary to permit the display of closed captions and
>> make video description and emergency information audible.
>> * Requires user controls for TVs and other video programming devices
>> to be accessible, and to have a button, key, icon, or comparable
>> mechanism designated for easily activating closed captioning and
>> video description.
>>
>> ·Requires on-screen text menus and program guides displayed on TV by
>> set-top boxes to be accessible to people who are blind or visually
>> impaired and requires set-top boxes to have a button, key, icon, or
>> comparable mechanism to allow easy activation of closed captioning (when
>> built-in to the set-top box) and video description.
>>
>> --FCC--
>>
>>
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