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Closed Captions For Web Video May Become Law

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An estimated 36 million Americans have some degree of hearing loss.  In 1990 a law was passed requiring all televisions to support closed captioning and in 1996 another law was passed requiring most TV shows to offer closed captions.  Now a bill is before Congress that would require any web video…that also appears on TV…to offer closed captions as well. While this law, if passed, will...