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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