Comments Due Sept. 3 on Accessibility Coalition's IP CTS Petition

The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau wants comments by Sept. 3, replies Sept. 16, in docket 03-123 on a petition from accessibility organizations regarding IP-captioned telephone service. TDIforAccess, the National Association of the Deaf and Hearing Loss Association of America sought a reversal of a previous FCC decision letting IP CTS providers "rely exclusively on automatic speech recognition" (see 2406030062). The groups also asked that the FCC require all IP CTS providers give users the option at any point during their call to have a communications assistant generate captions.