Wheeler Outlines Accessibility Steps to House Lawmakers
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler sees important next steps for the agency on accessible communications, he told Reps. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., and Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y. “We plan to encourage additional government agencies and businesses to adopt DVC [direct video communications] to…
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improve communications services for individuals with hearing and speech disabilities and further reduce expenditures from the TRS [telecom relay service] Fund,” Wheeler told them in a Dec. 20 letter, released this week. “The Commission also continues to move forward with its efforts to achieve interoperability of video communications for people with hearing and speech disabilities so they can use VRS [video relay service] anytime with anyone using any VRS provider. … We plan to use these [prototype video call routing platform and an experimental] software tools to verify VRS provider compliance with FCC interoperability standards and ensure that consumers with hearing and speech disabilities can fully utilize modern video communication devices given to them by VRS providers.”