The House recently submitted a draft bill, the "21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act." In this bill, the House proposes to amend the Communications Act with more robust consumer protections and provisions to make television and the Internet more accessible.
Michelle Rich, a member of our advisory board and mother of two children with hearing loss, published an essay for the NAD's DCMP about how closed captioning has profoundly affected the lives of everyone in her family, including her hearing daughter.