The FCC released a consumer guide on closed captioning requirements...
The FCC released a consumer guide on closed captioning requirements for online videos originally shown on TV (http://xrl.us/bncvpm). The agency had adopted the rules to implement provisions of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, said the…
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commission, which has been issuing guides on parts of the act this week (CD June 26 p17). The captioning rules apply to full-length video programming and video segments that were captioned when originally shown on TV, the guide said. Movies and consumer-generated media don’t need to be captioned on the Internet unless previously shown on TV with captioning, the guide said. It also includes the closed captioning implementation schedule for new Internet videos and uncaptioned Internet videos later shown on TV with captions.