The FCC's Media Bureau is seeking information on the closed captioning of video clips delivered using Internet protocol (IP), "including the extent which industry has voluntarily captioned IP-delivered video clips." In its 2012 order implementing closed-captioning provisions of the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, the FCC encouraged but did not require video programming owners, providers, and distributors to include closed captions on IP-delivered video clips. It said, however, that it might reconsider that decision if "consumers who are deaf or hard of hearing are denied access to critical areas of programming, such as news," the bureau recalled in a public notice released Dec. 13.
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