Goto Section: 79.108 | 79.110 | Table of Contents
FCC 79.109
Revised as of October 1, 2018
Goto Year:2017 |
2019
§ 79.109 Activating accessibility features.
(a) Requirements applicable to digital apparatus. (1) Manufacturers of
digital apparatus designed to receive or play back video programming
transmitted in digital format simultaneously with sound, including
apparatus designed to receive or display video programming transmitted
in digital format using Internet protocol, with built-in
closed-captioning capability must ensure that closed captioning can be
activated through a mechanism that is reasonably comparable to a
button, key, or icon. Digital apparatus do not include navigation
devices as defined in § 76.1200 of this chapter.
(2) Manufacturers of digital apparatus designed to receive or play back
video programming transmitted in digital format simultaneously with
sound, including apparatus designed to receive or display video
programming transmitted in digital format using Internet protocol, with
built-in video description capability must ensure that video
description can be activated through a mechanism that is reasonably
comparable to a button, key, or icon. Digital apparatus do not include
navigation devices as defined in § 76.1200 of this chapter.
Note 1 to paragraph (a): The term digital apparatus includes the
physical device and the video player(s) capable of displaying video
programming transmitted in digital format simultaneously with sound
that manufacturers install into the devices they manufacture before
sale, whether in the form of hardware, software, or a combination of
both, as well as any video players capable of displaying video
programming in digital format transmitted simultaneously with sound
that manufacturers direct consumers to install after sale. The term
software includes third-party applications that are pre-installed on a
device by the manufacturer or that the manufacturer directs consumers
to install after sale.
Note 2 to paragraph (a): This paragraph places no restrictions on the
importing, shipping, or sale of digital apparatus manufactured before
the applicable compliance deadline for this section.
(b) Requirements applicable to navigation devices. Manufacturers that
place navigation devices, as defined in § 76.1200 of this chapter, into
the chain of commerce for purchase by consumers, and MVPDs that lease
or sell such navigation devices with built in closed-captioning
capability must ensure that closed captioning can be activated through
a mechanism that is reasonably comparable to a button, key, or icon.
Note 1 to paragraph (b): In determining whether a particular device is
considered a “navigation device” subject to the requirements of this
section, the Commission will look to the device's built-in
functionality at the time of manufacture.
Note 2 to paragraph (b): This paragraph places no restrictions on the
importing, shipping, or sale of navigation devices manufactured before
the applicable compliance deadline for this section.
(c) Compliance deadline. Compliance with the requirements of this
section is required no later than December 20, 2016; except that
compliance with the requirements of this section is required no later
than December 20, 2018 for the following covered entities: (1) MVPD
operators with 400,000 or fewer subscribers as of year-end 2012; and
(2) MVPD systems with 20,000 or fewer subscribers that are not
affiliated with an operator serving more than 10 percent of all MVPD
subscribers as of year-end 2012.
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Goto Section: 79.108 | 79.110
Goto Year: 2017 |
2019
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