The FCC should redo January’s Internet Protocol captioning order (CD Jan 17 p3)...
The FCC should redo January’s Internet Protocol captioning order (CD Jan 17 p3) so clips from programs on broadcast TV or multichannel video programming distributors must be captioned when put online, said six groups and a university for those with…
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hearing disabilities. The petition for reconsideration from the Cerebral Palsy and Deaf Organization, National Association of the Deaf, Technology Access Program at Gallaudet University, Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and others also sought a requirement for makers of video apparatuses to synchronize caption display with programming. “Absent a timing obligation on device manufacturers, efforts to encode captions with proper timing and synchronization at the programming source and efforts by” video programming distributors “to maintain that timing and synchronization throughout the caption interchange and delivery system may be for naught,” said Friday’s filing. “Unless timing requirements are imposed upon all entities involved in the creation, transmission, and rendering of captions, the Commission’s current timing requirements will be ineffective.” The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, the 2010 law the order implemented, “confirms that the Commission cannot exclude programming from the IP captioning rules solely on the basis of length or completeness,” the groups said of clips. It was the second petition for recon (CD April 18 p14) that’s been filed in docket 11-154 (http://xrl.us/bm5sq3).