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FCC Bureau Extends E-Reader Accessibility Waiver Indefinitely

The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau indefinitely extended a waiver for “a narrow class of e-readers” of accessibility rules for advanced communications services (ACS), said an order released Monday and included in the next day's Daily Digest. “We conclude…

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that this narrow class of e-readers, while capable of accessing ACS, continues to be designed primarily for reading text-based digital works, not for ACS.” The waiver was originally granted in 2014, and extended in 2015. “Commencing three years from the release date of this Order, we will conduct a review of the status and accessibility of ACS provided on the class of e-readers subject to the waiver,” the order said.