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F PUBLIC NOTICE
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th St., S.W. News Media Information 20214184500
Washington, D.C. 20554 ternet: httpJm .fCgoV
T1Y: 14884-35322
DA 12-635
Released: April 24, 2012
MEDIA BUREAU AND CONSUMER AND GOVERNMENTAL
AFFAIRS BUREAU SEEK COMMENT ON SECOND VPAAC REPORT:
USER INTERFACES, AND VIDEO PROGRAMMING GUIDES AND MENUS
MB Docket No. 12-108
Comments Due: May 24, 2012
Reply Comments Due: June 8, 2012
1. On April 9, 2012, the Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee ("VPAAC")
submitted to the Federal Communications Commission ("Commission") the Second Report of the Video
Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee on the Twenty-First Century Communications and
Video Accessibility Act of 2010 ("VPAAC Second Report").' By this Public Notice, the Media Bureau
and Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau seek comment on the portion of the VPAAC Second
Report about user interfaces, video programming guides, and menus.2
2. On October 8, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Twenty-First Century
Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 ("CVAA").3 Sections 204 and 205 of the CVAA
direct the Commission to make user interfaces and video programming menus on digital video
programming apparatus, and menus and video programming guides provided by navigation devices
accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired.4 They also direct the Commission to mandate
access to closed captioning and video description features through the use of a mechanism that is
reasonably comparable to a button, key, or icon designated for activating such features, on both video
programming apparatus and navigation devices.5
SThe VPAAC Second Report is available at http:/!vpaac.wikisaces.com/. The portion of the report that addresses
user interfaces, video programming guides, and menus is available at
http:/!/vpaac.wikispaces .com/file/view/l20409-VPAAC-+U sertI lnterfaces--and--Video-Programmin +Guides-iand-
Menus+REPORT-AS-SUBMITTED+4-9-2012.pdf.
2 We seek comment on separate parts of the VPAAC Second Report, which contain information pertaining to video
description and access to emergency information, in a separate Public Notice. Media Bureau and Consumer and
Governmental Affairs Bureau Seek Comment on Second VPAAC Report: Video Description and Access to
Emergency Information, DA 12-636 (PN rel. April 24, 2012).
3 Pub. L. No. 111-260, 124 Stat. 2751 (2010). See also Amendment of the Twenty-First Century Communications
and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, Pub. L. No. 111-265, 124 Stat. 2795 (2010) (making technical corrections to
the CV AA).
447 U.S.C. 303(aaX1) & (2); 303(bbX1).
s 47 U.S.C. 303(aa)(3) & (bb)(2).4191
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