Five groups representing the hearing impaired have “new concerns” about...
Five groups representing the hearing impaired have “new concerns” about the FCC’s Internet Protocol captioning order (CD Jan 17 p3) not requiring video clips be captioned, they told the agency. The groups pointed to a Greater Los Angeles Agency on…
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Deafness lawsuit against CNN for allegedly refusing to caption video at cnn.com. Before the FCC approved the order, “CNN argued that GLAD’s lawsuit should be dismissed because the Commission would impose captioning regulations for sites like CNN.com,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 11-54 (http://xrl.us/bmv9jq). The order and remarks by commission staff indicate the agency “would pay close attention to the accessibility of video clips to ensure that programming distributors do not exploit the omission of video clips from the IP captioning rules as a loophole,” the advocates said. “We fear that CNN’s position in the GLAD lawsuit indicates that video distributors will seize upon the lack of clip captioning requirements as an excuse not to caption clips, treating the Commission’s rules as a ceiling for accessibility efforts rather than a floor.” A CNN spokeswoman had no comment. The filing reported on a meeting between officials of hearing impaired groups and staff from the Media and Consumer & Governmental Affairs bureaus. Officials at Telecom for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, the National Association for the Deaf, Gallaudet University, Hearing Loss Association of America and Association of Late-Deafened Adults participated. A lawyer who has represented Amazon.com and Microsoft in the IP captioning proceeding reported in a filing in the docket (http://xrl.us/bmv9tp) that he told a bureau front-office staffer about “the challenges” some video programming distributors “may encounter” in adhering to parts of the order. The lawyer didn’t say who, if anyone, he was representing during the lobbying conversation, and didn’t immediately respond to our inquiry.