September is the month of deaf awareness. However, this week is the official International Week of the Deaf beginning on September 18th to the 24th. This month, and especially this week, allows us to emphasize the importance of equal access…
With an estimated 1 billion people with disabilities worldwide and the fact that the Internet has no borders, the existence of a single accessibility standard has been hugely helpful in providing and managing global online accessibility. This is especially true…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released Internet Closed Captioning Rules that would require distributors of certain video programming to provide adequate closed captioning to assist deaf and/or hard-of-hearing viewers. These FCC closed captions rules went into effect on September 30th,…