Hearing Aid Compatibility Task Force Updates FCC Staff
Representatives of the Hearing Aid Compatibility Task Force met with FCC staffers to update them on the group's work, said a filing posted Thursday in docket 15-285. One working group is “researching currently available and emerging technologies that can enable…
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those with hearing loss to connect to their wireless devices,” the group said: A second “has conducted two surveys regarding existing and emerging HAC technologies and features … focused on understanding the behavior and experiences of: (1) consumers who use hearing devices; and (2) hearing health care professionals.” A third group is looking at standards and how handsets perform under the 2019 version of the standard. Task force members met with staff from the FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs and Wireless bureaus and Office of Engineering and Technology, the filing said. The group started work in 2020 (see 2002070027).