Consumer Groups Oppose National Asian American Coalition Captioning Exemption

The FCC should deny the National Asian American Coalition​'s request for an exemption from closed captioning requirements for its program Owning a Piece of America, said a joint filing by several consumer groups representing the hearing impaired. “NAAC is a financially stable organization with a multimillion dollar budget, and is looking to expand,” said the consumer groups, which included Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, the National Association of the Deaf and the Association of Late-Deafened Adults. “Its low captioning costs would not result in an economic burden.”