The FCC’s new Emergency Access Advisory Committee will examine...
The FCC’s new Emergency Access Advisory Committee will examine what the best technologies are for the disabled to access “next generation 911,” the commission said late Tuesday. It said the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act directed the group…
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to conduct a national survey and submit recommendations on technologies to the commission. The survey is due under the act a year after the committee’s members are appointed, which the regulator also did Tuesday. The Video Programming and Emergency Access Advisory Committee, whose members also were named, will focus on the accessibility of video programming. It will make recommendations on captioning Internet programming that previously was televised with captions, video device user interfaces, program guides the disabled can use and other issues, the FCC said. That committee must make recommendations on captioning of Web video and the ability of video devices to pass on closed captions from Internet-based video within six months of its first meeting, scheduled for Jan. 13, the agency said. All other issues under its purview must also get recommendations by April 8, 2012, the FCC said. A full list of all members of the emergency access committee is at http://xrl.us/biate6, and of the video committee is at http://xrl.us/biatfe.