FCC Inviting Your Comments re Accessibility & New Devices

For those of you interested in or working on HCI/accessibility for the
disabled community, FCC is inviting your comments re browsers in cell
phones. Here's your chance to weigh in.

Please DO NOT SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO ME. Send any and all comments to
the link provided below for this. I am not the FCC and am not sitting
on the FCC (though I was invited to apply for a position on it and did
so - any crossed fingers are much appreciated).

LjR



>  FCC Proposes Rules Requiring the Accessibility of Advanced
> Communications and Video Programming for Millions of Consumers with
> Disabilities
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> On March 3, 2011, the Federal Communications Commission issued three
> Notices of Proposed Rulemaking to make communications and video
> programming accessible by people with disabilities:  (1) Advanced
> Communications; (2) Video Description and (3) contributions to the
> telecommunications relay service (TRS) Fund.  Each of the proposed
> rules are part of the FCCs implementation of the 21st Century
> Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, a law designed
> to ensure that 54 million individuals with disabilities in the
> United States have full access to new and emerging communication
> services, equipment and networks.
>
> The first NPRM approved by the Commission asks questions about how
> best to ensure that Americans with disabilities have access to
> advanced communications equipment and services, including electronic
> messaging (e-mail, instant messaging, etc.), video communications,
> and voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications services.  It
> also, seeks comments on how to make ensure that Internet browsers
> built into mobile telephones are accessible by people who are blind
> or visually impaired.  Finally, it asks about new recordkeeping
> obligations for companies covered by these new obligations, as well
> as ways to make it easier for consumers to file complaints when they
> do not get the access that they need.    www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/headlines.html
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> The second NPRM reinstates the FCCs video description rules, which
> had been overturned by a federal court in 2002.  Video description
> is the insertion of audio narrated descriptions of a television
> program's key visual elements into natural pauses in the program's
> dialogue.  Video description is designed to make video programming
> more accessible to individuals who are blind or visually impaired.
www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/headlines.html
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>
> The third NPRM requires VoIP providers to contribute to the TRS
> Fund.  TRS enables people who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech
> disabled to communicate with other individuals in voice, text, and
> video through communications assistants using telephone and Internet
> connections.www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/headlines.html
>
> The following are links to statements on the new proposals released
> by FCC Chairman Genachowski and FCC Commissioner Copps:
> Statement by FCC Chairman Genachowski  www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/headlines.html
> Statement by Commissioner Copps www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/headlines.html
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