FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel's Remarks to National Association of the Deaf

On July 3, Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel spoke at the National Association of the Deaf Conference in Chicago (IL) about the ways "digital technologies can improve the lives of people with disabilities," and about some of the work the FCC has done to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. "Two weeks from now, the FCC will vote on a new proposal to improve video programming accessibility for individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing. The FCC has standards for closed captioning that allow users to customize the font, size, color, and other display features of captions. But, as too many of you know and as we have heard from NAD, these tools are too hard to find. That is why we will vote on rules to make display settings for closed captioning more “readily accessible” for all."