Apple views parts of FCC Internet Protocol captioning rules as “challenging,”...
Apple views parts of FCC Internet Protocol captioning rules as “challenging,” a lawyer for the company reported telling Media Bureau Deputy Chief Michelle Carey. “We discussed Apple’s commitment to accessibility and the challenging time period given to video programming distributors…
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(VPDs) to implement the requirements of Section 79.4(c)(2)(i) of the FCC’s rules.” A Monday ex parte filing (http://xrl.us/bmw6re) in docket 11-154 came after other companies including DirecTV and Dish Network told the FCC of hurdles in the new IP captioning rules. There are “potential difficulties” if software provided by VPDs must “comply with certain obligations in as little as six months after the rules become effective, while software and hardware provided by manufacturers and other non-VPDs need not comply until January 1, 2014,” the two DBS companies said in a recent filing in the docket (http://xrl.us/bmw6q6).