The FCC should require emergency information be carried on a secondary audio channel...
The FCC should require emergency information be carried on a secondary audio channel and by closed captions for people with sight and hearing problems, several deaf groups said. That’s a “viable means to serve the diverse needs of the more…
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than one million people who are blind or visually impaired and deaf or hard of hearing,” Deaf and Hard of Hearing Consumer Advocacy Network, Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and others told Consumer & Governmental Affairs and Media bureau officials implementing the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act. The agency should also “adopt emergency information and apparatus rules consistent with the CVAA and the IP Captioning Order” and “reject various industry proposals to the contrary,” they said on Internet Protocol captioning (http://xrl.us/bob6zs). Their filing was posted Wednesday to docket 12-107, where those groups had sought the audio channel and captioning tack in comments last month (CD Dec 20 p12). Some people with both hearing and vision problems “rely on a Braille display or other tactile device fed with textual emergency information, such as through closed captions,” the new ex parte filing said. “Some people with limited vision may be able to enlarge or otherwise manipulate closed captions to view emergency information on a video screen."