FCC Posts Report on Access of Disabled to Conferencing Platforms
The FCC posted a report Friday on telecommunications relay services on videoconferencing platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Webex, approved Feb. 24 by its Disability Advisory Committee (see 2202240064). “The Commission should either directly convene or encourage the convening of…
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TRS providers and video conferencing platform vendors, with the input of accessibility advocates and academic experts, to facilitate the development of an application programming interface (API) or other standardized technical mechanism to allow TRS providers to directly interconnect to video conferencing platforms,” the report recommends: “Work with all stakeholders to ensure that TRS users can use standard user interfaces on all video conferencing platforms to join their preferred TRS provider to a video conference, in realtime.”