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All humans have equal rights. How can we discover how to work together to make our world, including our technology based and virtual/ internet based world, fully inclusive? The reality is that technology-based communications and communities offer us both benefits and challenges when it comes to equality... just like the rest of our society. There's so much to be done! Why not contribute to the dialogue? To recommend topics or links, please email 4EqualRights@att.net

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

FCC Announces Internet Captioning Deadlines

Tuesday, May 22, 2012- from the NAD Newsletter:
FCC Announces Internet Captioning Deadlines

After many years of hard work by the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and other organizations and advocates, the IP closed captioning rules were published in the Federal Register on March 30, 2012 and establishes April 30, 2012 as the effective date for the rules. According to the rules, video programming shown on the Internet after being shown on television must have captions based on the following schedule established by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

FCC Announces Internet Captioning Deadlines

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