{"id":1590,"date":"2010-08-09T10:06:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T14:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2010-08-09T10:06:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T14:06:54","slug":"video-accessibility-act-of-2010-moves-closer-to-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/09\/video-accessibility-act-of-2010-moves-closer-to-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Accessibility Act of 2010 Moves Closer To Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months ago <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/21\/closed-captions-for-web-video-may-become-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">I did a post <\/a><\/strong>about how bills were being proposed in the U.S. that would require closed-captioning for certain online videos. \u00a0These bills have recently passed through the U.S. House and Senate. \u00a0There are differences between the House and Senate versions that still must be hashed out, but once they are, everything will just need the president&#8217;s signature to become law.<\/p>\n<p>Once a law, any online video content&#8230;that was also produced for television&#8230;must included closed-captioning. \u00a0That means if you watch your favorite TV show online, it must have captions. \u00a0User-generated videos or videos produced solely for the web will not require closed-captioning.<\/p>\n<p>The current bills don&#8217;t specific any deadlines for when closed-captioning must start occurring, rather they only call for a special commission that will set the timetable. \u00a0In other words, closed-captioning&#8230;under law&#8230;may still be a year or two or three away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months ago I did a post about how bills were being proposed in the U.S. that would require closed-captioning for certain online videos. \u00a0These bills have recently passed through the U.S. House and Senate. \u00a0There are differences between the House and Senate versions that still must be hashed out, but once they are, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[639,640],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}