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[ PRIVACY Forum ] 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Sun Oct 10 13:01:53 2010
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21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act
http://bit.ly/dulpQG (Library of Congress)
The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act has been
signed by President Obama. The legislation includes mandates for
accessibility in smartphones and other devices, and includes the
requirement that programming first broadcast on television include
captioning when made available on the Web as well.
My reading of the legislation is that this latter aspect applies only
to major (that is over-the-air) broadcasters, and there are various
exemptions also available. As such this seems a relatively modest
requirement. Most commercial programming is already captioned, what
the legislation appears to do is require that in most cases the effort
be made to transfer those captions to the online versions (or that
other captioning mechanisms be used online).
An interesting question is if and how the availability of
autocaptioning (e.g. as in YouTube) plays into this requirement.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com)
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