Today's release of the National Broadband Plan included a key chapter, Chapter 9 - "Adoption and Utilization." This chapter speaks about disability access. Of special interest to me, is what it says on page 168 (page 4 of the chapter PDF):
Congress, the FCC and the U.S. Department of Justice
(DOJ) should consider modernizing accessibility laws,
rules and related subsidy programs.
This means the Federal Communications Commission recognizes how inadequate existing law is for protecting the rights of people with disabilities to access things like online video. Indeed, if you read further down into the chapter, you will see that it mentions lack of captions on Internet video on page 169 (5 of the PDF). Even the FCC recognizes the need for HR 3101, the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.
For a more detailed description of what the National Broadband Plan has for people with disabilities, see Abledbody.com's analysis.
Related: Introducing Caption Action 2
