FCC advances with Internet video closed captioning
01.18.12
Video closed captioning came closer to reality as the FCC moves the 2010 rules along. Read More »
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Genachowski and Knight Foundation name winners of “Apps for Communities” project
12.21.11
Thirteen software apps won $100,000 from the Apps for Communities Challenge, sponsored by the FCC and the Knight Foundation. Read More »
House Dems Ask FCC To Develop Internet In Nation’s School And Libraries
10.20.11
Four House Democrats asked the FCC to use the Universal Service Fund to improve Internet access in the country's schools, libraries and health clinics. Read More »
FCC Takes Major Step For People With Disabilities
10.13.11
The FCC began implementing "the most significant accessibility legislation since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990." Read More »
FCC Mandates Closed Captioning On Streaming Video
08.29.11
By a 4-0 vote, FCC Commissioners have ordered broadcasters and cable operators to provide "new video description regimes," which includes closed captioning, within nine months. The new ruling will make it possible for the approximately 28 million Americans with hearing deficits to enjoy the same closed captioning now required for TV broadcast. Read More »
Telemedicine Does Reduce Patient Travel
08.19.11
"A major benefit offered by telemedicine is the avoidance of travel, by patients, their carers and health care professionals," wrote the authors of a recent international study. Read More »
Administration Presses Federal Government On Technology Accessibility
07.29.11
On July 26, 2011, the 21st anniversary of the 1990 American with Disabilities Act, the Obama administration instructed federal agencies to improve technology accessibility for people with disabilities. Read More »
FCC Sets Six Month Deadline for Online Closed Captioning
07.28.11
Last October, President Obama signed into law the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 — "a bill to increase the access of persons with disabilities to modern communications, and for other purposes." In short it required that Internet video content be closed-captioned for the hearing impaired — just as it is on broadcast and cable television. Read More »
Disabled Can Increase Employment Opportunities With Assistive Technology
07.22.11
Among the people who benefit most from innovative online technologies are the disabled. The profoundly deaf can communicate as easily by email as the general population. People with mobility problems can without difficulty conference via Skype or other video service. But according to one estimate, only half of people with disabilities have adopted broadband. Read More »
Bring Broadband to the Billion with Disability
07.08.11
An analysis in Broadband Expanded, a project of New York Law School, urges policy-makers to make broadband and its devices and services accessible to people with disabilities — especially those who can't use standard devices. Read More »
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