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CEA attacked a Telecommunications for the Deaf and...

CEA attacked a Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing report (CD May 17 p7) on problems with closed captions over Internet Protocol and said it should be disregarded. The TDI report complained of a lack of captions on…

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mobile Web browsers more than seven months before the deadline for compliance, the association wrote the FCC Wednesday in docket 11-154 (http://bit.ly/117QWHx). “TDI’s failure to even acknowledge the January 1, 2014, compliance deadline for the apparatus closed captioning rules casts serious doubt on the credibility of the TDI Report,” wrote CEA Vice President-Regulatory Affairs Julie Kearney. “Any claims made in the TDI Report regarding apparatus closed captioning capability are at best premature and should be disregarded."