An FCC committee appeared to have released a report on closed captioning...
An FCC committee appeared to have released a report on closed captioning of video that’s delivered using Internet Protocol, said industry lawyers who read what purports to be a copy of it on the panel’s wiki page at http://vpaac.wikispaces.com/home. The…
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Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee proposed some deadlines and definitions for implementing part of the 21st Century Communications Accessibility Act, which required the commission to give to Congress a report about online captioning. Six months after rules appear in the Federal Register, prerecorded and unedited programming for Internet distribution to end-users should be captioned, the committee recommended. Live and near-live programming should be captioned in a year, and content that’s been substantially edited for distribution on the Web should have captions in 18 months, it said. Live programming should be considered content “created and presented on television and simulcast for Internet distribution to the end user as it airs on” TV, the report said. “Near-live programming” is that produced within 12 hours of being shown, the panel said. Commission representatives had no comment on the report. Blogs from the Davis Wright law firm reported on its release, and obtained the report from the wiki site.