All companies that produce full-length broadcast programs should be...
All companies that produce full-length broadcast programs should be required to provide closed captioning for both IP-delivered video clips and full-length programs, said Public Citizen in a comment filed with the FCC in docket 11-154 Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1nevhea). The 21st Century…
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Communications and Video Accessibility Act “was intended to cover IP-delivered video clips,” said the filing, citing a letter from Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Mark Pryor, D-Ark., that states “affirmatively” that congressional intent was to caption clips. “Any other standard” would go against the principles of the CVAA, the filing said. “The widespread lack of captioning on IP-delivered video programming disadvantages and marginalizes deaf and hard of hearing people."