COAT advocates for accessibility and usability of technology for people with disabilities. Enacting the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (21st CVAA) was a huge step forward and we are working to implement this new law. COAT’s overall aim is to ensure accessibility, usability, and affordability of all broadband, wireless, and Internet technologies for people with disabilities.

Airline Passenger Rights Group Petitions for Accessibility of In-Flight Movies

March 4, 2010. COAT applauds the Association for Airline Passenger Rights (AAPR) campaign directed to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to improve accessibility of in-flight entertainment such as movies and infomercials. The campaign, begun in February, seeks to gather 10,000 petition signatures.

COAT supports the rights of passengers who are deaf or hard-of-hearing to receive the same consideration by the airlines as hearing customers. We also support pass through of available video description used by people who are blind and others.

Sign AAPR's petition here for airline entertainment captioning.

For more information about the Association for Airline Passenger Rights or the need for DOT to require closed captioning on all in-flight entertainment, visit AAPR website or send Email

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I have written an Email to

Submitted by Jenifer Simpson on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 13:09.

I have written an Email to AAPR to ask them to caption the videoclip of this campaign which is on their website

All the spoken words on the

Submitted by Association for Airline Passenger Rights (not verified) on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 15:31.

All the spoken words on the video clip posted on our website are transcribed on the screen; we made this modification when the software we used (Windows Movie Maker) wouldn't allow captioning. In addition, we've already provided a transcript of the video right below the video where it reads: "Download Transcript."

I missed the transcript

Submitted by Jenifer Simpson on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 18:01.

I missed the transcript available link! Sorry!

Andrew Phillips, National Association of the Deaf; Eric Bridges, American Council of the Blind; Mark Richert, American Foundation for the Blind; and Jenifer Simpson, American Association of People with Disabilities, outside the FCC building, Washington DC, after meetings on pending rules under 21st CVAA.

Celebration of the bill's final passage

Rep. Ed Markey and Legislative Director Mark Bayer celebrate the bill’s final passage on September 28, 2010, in front of the Helen Keller statue, with the leaders from the Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology: Karen Peltz Strauss, formerly with Communication Service for the Deaf; Jenifer Simpson, American Association of People with Disabilities; Rosaline Crawford, National Association of the Deaf. Their hands symbolize clapping in sign language.

Congressman Ed Markey in photo of Congressional hearing room dais. Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA), center, introduced the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009 (H.R. 3101) on June 26, 2009.

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President Obama signs the Accessibility Act

President Obama signed the 21^st
Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act into law on October 8, 2010, with many key advocates and lawmakers in attendance.

Senator Mark Pryor (AR) received AAPD’s Justice For All Award July 26, 2011 for his leadership with Senate passage of the 21st CVAA.

Key FCC Staff working on 21st CVAA

Key FCC staff working on 21st CVAA: Karen Peltz Strauss, Rosaline Crawford, Eliot Greenwald

Sesame Street video with captioning and description.

Closed Caption button on remote.

Airline Passenger Rights Group Petitions for Accessibility of In-Flight Movies

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