IP Relay Service
January 27, 2021
Internet Protocol Relay Service allows persons with a hearing or speech disability to use Telecommunications Relay Service through a computer or web-...
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categorySpeech to Speech Relay Service
January 27, 2021
Speech-to-Speech (STS) is one form of Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS). TRS is a service that allows persons with hearing and speech...
21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA)
January 27, 2021
The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) updates federal communications law to increase the access of persons with...
Access to Emergency Information on Television
January 27, 2021
FCC rules require broadcasters and cable operators to make local emergency information accessible to persons who are deaf or hard of hearing, and to...
Audio Description
January 27, 2021
Audio description (referred to as video description in the Commission’s rules) is audio-narrated descriptions of a television program's key visual...
Closed Captioning of Internet Video Programming
January 27, 2021
Closed captioning is the visual display of the audio portion of video programming. Captioning provides access to individuals who are deaf or have...
Internet Protocol (IP) Captioned Telephone Service
January 27, 2021
Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) allows persons with who are deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind or who have speech disabilities to place and...
Digital Radio
January 26, 2021
Digital radio is the transmission and reception of sound processed into patterns of numbers, or "digits" – hence the term "digital radio." In...
Children's Educational Television
January 26, 2021
The Children's Television Act requires each U.S. broadcast television station to air programming specifically designed to serve the educational and...
National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program
January 25, 2021
The FCC's National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program (NDBEDP), also known as iCanConnect, provides equipment needed to make...