Speech 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...
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category21st 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...
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...
Accessible TV and Set-Top Box Controls, Menus and Program Guides
January 27, 2021
*/ If you are having trouble activating closed captioning or audio description, or if you are blind or visually impaired and you are having...
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...
Cable Company Records and Public Inspection Requirements
January 21, 2021
FCC rules require cable television operators serving 1,000 or more subscribers to maintain certain records and make them available for public...
International Roaming: Using Your Mobile Phone in Other Countries
January 15, 2021
Planning to take your mobile device along on an international trip? Roaming rules and rates are complicated and vary from one carrier to the next, so...
Surcharges for International Calls to Wireless Phones
January 15, 2021
Placing a long distance call from your wireline telephone in the U.S. to a wireless phone in another country may result in a surcharge on your bill...