Comments Due Oct. 7 on Kidvid Accessibility
The FCC Media Bureau wants feedback on the accessibility of children’s programming, following the 2019 changes to kidvid rules (see 1907100067), said a public notice Tuesday in docket 18-202. Comments are due Oct. 7 and replies Nov. 8. The PN…
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“will help inform the Commission’s determination of whether additional action is warranted to promote increased accessibility of children’s programming,” it said. The 2019 order required the bureau to ask how the rules have affected accessibility within two years. The changes to the rules allowed broadcasters to meet children’s programming requirements with content on multicast channels and short-form programming, which doesn’t all fall under audio description and captioning requirements, the PN said. The bureau wants information on how much short-form and multicast content is captioned or audio-described, and what might have changed in broadcasting since 2019 to affect accessibility for children’s content.