FCC Disability Advisory Committee Announcement of Next Meeting

The next meeting of the Federal Communications Commission's Disability Advisory Committee will take place on Tuesday, June 23, 2015, from 9:00am to 3:00pm EST, at the FCC's headquarters. At the meeting, an announcement will be made of the appointment of Claude Stout of Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. and Susan Mazrui of AT&T Services, Inc. as the new Committee Co-chairs, replacing Andrew Phillips of the National Association of the Deaf. It is also expected that the Committee will receive reports from all four subcommittees as follows:

• DAC will consider a recommendation from its Relay/Equipment Distribution Subcommittee regarding modification of the speed of answer requirements for video relay service.
• DAC will consider a recommendation from its Communications Subcommittee regarding ways to identify gaps in available research about the communications product and service preferences, barriers, and information needs of people with disabilities.
• DAC will consider a recommendation from the emergency Communications Subcommittee to endorse the Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council IV Working Group 2's report and recommendations for improvements to Wireless Emergency Alerts
• DAC will receive a presentation summarizing the Video Description Rountable hosted by the Video Programming Subcommittee on June 22, 2015.