DTV Access
Consumer and Community Resources
The basics of DTV closed captioning and video description, written for consumers and station non-technical staff.
- Captioning FAQ
- Description FAQ
- DTV Issues -- How will the transition to digital television affect captions and description?
- Related Legislation --What laws and regulations apply to captions and description?
- Advanced Television Closed Caption Study -- a 1997 NCAM consumer study and technical report.
- Summary of the FCC's DTV closed-captioning requirements based on the July 21, 2000, Report & Order.
- Excerpt from the DTV captioning rules.
- Comments filed with the National Association of the Deaf regarding why and how deaf people require user control of various caption attributes in order to aid comprehension. Unfortunately, these are in an inaccessible PDF document.
