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Submitted: September 23, 2010 - 1:00pm
Originally published: September 23, 2010
Last updated: September 23, 2010 - 1:01pm
Originally published: September 23, 2010
Last updated: September 23, 2010 - 1:01pm
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Broadcasting&Cable
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John Eggerton
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Capitol Building, East Capitol Street, NE and 1st Street, NE, Washington, DC, 20002, United States
On Sept 22, the Senate passed the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (S. 3828), a bill that updates disability access to communications services elements of the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
The bill takes a number of steps to update the Telecommunications Act disability access provisions to reflect the rise of broadband, including reinstating the FCC's video description rules, which were tossed by a court in 1992, and applying closed captioning rules to online video as well as TV. A similar measure already passed in the House.
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