Video Description

Noovember 22, 2011. Leading COAT affiliate The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) sent a letter to the House Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). SOPA is currently under consideration in Congress and is a bill intended to combat the dissemination of pirated copyrighted content on the Internet, such as Hollywood videos published online without permission.

September 30, 2011. The next meeting of the FCC's Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee (VPAAC) is scheduled for Tuesday, November 1, 2011 from 9 am to 5 pm at the FCC Headquarters, 445 12th Street, SW, Washington,

August 25, 2011.  NAB Statement on FCC Implementation of Video Description Rules:   WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to the FCC's implementation of the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, NAB Manager, Media Relations Zamir Ahmed issued the following statement:

August 26, 2011.  Markey Statement on FCC Approval of Video Description Rules for the Blind

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member and former chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Communications, Technology and the Internet Subcommittee, released the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) approval of new regulations under the authority of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 that require the television industry to provide video descriptions. Video descriptions make video programming more accessible to individuals who are blind or visually impaired.

August 25, 2011.  The FCC Commissioners voted 4-0 to reinstate TV video description rules yesterday, releasing the Report and Order today. Below is the statement made by FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn upon release of the FCC Vid Description Report and Order. Commissioners Copps and Clyburn's statements are below in addition to a Summary of the rules.

STATEMENT OF FCC COMMISSIONER MIGNON L. CLYBURN--Re: Video Description: Implementation of the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, Report & Order

August 9, 2011. COAT steering committee members met with FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and her staff and with several other Commissioners' staffs -- from the offices of Commissioners Copps and McDowell and Chairman Genachowski -- this week in regard to reinstatement of video description rules, rules for advanced communications services and for TV internet captioning.