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Compatible
Peripheral devices are devices that help make telecommunications products and services accessible to individuals with disabilities....
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C. Executive Order 13132: Federalism
The proposed 255 Guidelines apply to manufacturers of telecommunications equipment and customer premises equipment and require that equipment is designed, developed, and fabricated to be...
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Efforts to minimize impact
Efforts to minimize impact (1) In implementing Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act, the Board has sought to minimize any disproportionate burdens imposed on small businesses....
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
The ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment, State and local government, public accommodations, commercial facilities, transportation, and telecommunications...
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3. Baseline Compliance Costs
Baseline costs for telecommunications equipment manufacturers to conform to the current 255 Guidelines related to product documentation and user support are estimated at $114 million annually...
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E102.3 ANSI/IEEE (Section-by-Section Analysis)
This standard is consistent with current telecommunications industry practices. Products conforming to this standard minimize interference to hearing aids by wireless telephones....
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Declaration of Conformity
A few commenters from the telecommunications industry and disability organizations urged the Board to adopt the Declaration of Conformity as recommended by the TAAC....
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Chapter 4: Hardware (Section-by-Section Analysis)
This is because the existing 255 Guidelines parallel only existing 508 Standards §§ 1194.23 Telecommunications products, 1194.31 Functional performance criteria, and 1194.41 Information,...
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C103 Defined Terms (Section-by-Section Analysis)
We note here that ICT is a broad term that encompasses not only information technology and other electronic systems and processes covered by the 508 Standards, but also telecommunications...
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C204.1 General (Section-by-Section Analysis)
These exceptions are proposed due to considerations unique to telecommunications equipment....
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E103.4 Defined Terms (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Defining a common term that covers both Section 508-covered E&IT and Section 255-covered telecommunications products and services is consistent with the overall approach in the proposed...
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§8.3 Auxiliary aids
Auxiliary aids for persons with impaired hearing may include telephone handset amplifiers, telephones compatible with hearing aids, telecommunication devices for deaf persons (TDD's), interpreters...
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TTY (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
The definition for the term TTY is consistent with the definition of TTY in the Board's ADA Accessibility Guidelines and Telecommunications Act Accessibility Guidelines....
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B. Regulatory Flexibility Act
Since then, telecommunications technology and commercial markets have changed dramatically, along with the usage of telecommunications equipment....
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Intent
This Guide does not include requirements from ADA Title I (Employment), Title IV (Telecommunications), Title V (Miscellaneous Provisions), requirements that differ from 2010 ADA Standards...
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Intent
This Guide does not include requirements from ADA Title I (Employment), Title IV (Telecommunications), Title V (Miscellaneous Provisions), requirements that differ from 2010 ADA Standards...
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Section 1193.23 Product design, development and evaluation
1193.23 Product design, development and evaluation This section requires that, where readily achievable, manufacturers must evaluate the accessibility, usability, and compatibility of telecommunications...
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A. Introduction (Section-by-Section Analysis)
., federal entities and telecommunications equipment manufacturers)....
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C101.2 Equivalent Facilitation (Section-by-Section Analysis)
C101.2 Equivalent Facilitation (Section-by-Section Analysis) This proposed section addresses when telecommunications equipment manufacturers may use equivalent facilitation, and mirrors...
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402.2.2 Braille Instructions (Section-by-Section Analysis)
For telecommunications equipment and customer premises equipment subject to Section 255, this requirement is inapplicable; an exception to proposed C204.1 expressly exempts such ICT from...
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410.2 Volume Gain (Section-by-Section Analysis)
In July 2013, the FCC issued a request for comment on a petition for rulemaking filed by a telecommunications industry group requesting that the agency revise its hearing aid compatibility...
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IV. DEFINITIONS
assistive listening systems; telephones compatible with hearing aids; closed caption decoders; open and closed captioning, including real-time captioning; voice, text, and video-based telecommunications...
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Telephones
Teletypewriters (TTYs) and Telecommunication Relay Service (TRS): People with hearing and speech disabilities who do not use sign language to communicate, those without access to high speed...