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3.2.2.4. Summary of Baselines
In the Medium Accessibility baseline, approximately 70 percent of auditoriums are equipped to provide closed movie captioning and approximately 70 percent are equipped to provide audio description...
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B. Major Provisions
The rule does not require movie theaters to add captions or audio description for movies that are not produced or distributed with these features....
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2.4.1. Replacement Costs
The Final RA estimates the costs to replace captioning and audio description hardware and devices over the time frame of the analysis. ...
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B. Title III's Implementing Regulation
aid presently available that would effectively communicate the dialogue and sounds in a movie is captioning....
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4.2.1. Low Accessibility Baseline
This baseline assumes that the auditoriums already equipped to provide closed movie captioning and audio description, as reported in NATO’s 2015 Accessibility Survey, are the only auditoriums...
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Section 36.303(g)(6) Alternative Technologies
movie captioning in an auditorium.”...
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Section 36.303(g)(9) Operational Requirements
facility and available to assist patrons whenever showing a captioned or audio-described movie....
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2.4.3. Maintenance and Administrative Costs
The maintenance and administrative costs include, but are not limited to:
Periodic ongoing maintenance, system testing, and cleaning of devices – Under heavy use from patrons, movie...
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Rulemaking Process Documents > NPRMS > 28 CFR Parts 35 and 36, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations - Movie Theaters; Movie Captioning and Audio Description (NPRM)
A. Executive Orders 13563 and 12866—Summary of Initial Regulatory Assessment
A. Executive Orders 13563 and 12866—Summary of Initial Regulatory Assessment
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§ 36.303(g)(9) Operational requirements
On or after January 17, 2017, whenever a public accommodation provides captioning and audio description in a movie theater auditorium exhibiting digital movies, it shall ensure that at least...
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Rulemaking Process Documents > ANPRMS > 28 CFR Part 36 Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Movie Captioning and Video Description ANPRM
B. Legal foundation for captioning and video description
Legal foundation for captioning and video description
Creating regulations that would require movie theater owners and operators to exhibit closed captioned and video described movies...
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§ 36.303(g)(5) Performance requirements for captioning devices and audio description devices
Each captioning device and each audio description device must be properly maintained by the movie theater to ensure that each device is fully operational, available to patrons in a timely...
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2. The ADA Title III Regulation
The regulation lists open and closed captioning and audio recordings and other effective methods of making visually-delivered materials available to individuals with visual impairments as...
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4.2.2. High Accessibility Baseline
The costs under the High Accessibility baseline are lower than in the primary analysis because more auditoriums are assumed to be equipped to provide closed movie captioning or audio description...
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2.3.3. Installation Costs
Although some manufacturers include installation as part of purchasing the equipment package, some movie theaters may elect to install the equipment using internal staff. ...
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28 CFR Part 36 Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations - Movie Theaters; Movie Captioning and Audio Description Final Rule
; Movie Captioning and Audio Description
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C. Equipment and technology questions
With regard to closed captioning systems, is the ability to read the captions equally good throughout the movie theater or are there certain seats in the theater that provide an enhanced...
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8.1. Annual Costs
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E. Training
Should the Department consider including a training requirement for movie theater personnel?...
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1.4.4. Operational Requirements
Because movie theaters may comply with the requirement to provide captioning at all screenings of a digital movie produced or distributed with such features through the provision of open...
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2.4. Ongoing Costs
In addition to the upfront costs associated with hardware and device acquisition and installation, movie theaters will incur ongoing annual costs to maintain and operate captioning and...
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3.8 Maintenance and Administrative Costs
Depending on the technology, movie theaters may need to periodically replace the batteries in the devices. ...
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1.4.1. Deferral of Coverage for Auditoriums Showing Analog Movies Exclusively
movie industry’s conversion to digital cinema. ...
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Federal Documents > Regulations > 28 CFR Part 36 Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations and in Commercial Facilities (2010 ADA Title III Regulations with amendments issued through Dec. 2016)
§ 36.303(g)(7)(ii)
(ii) If a public accommodation converts a movie theater auditorium from an analog projection system to a system that allows it to exhibit digital movies after December 2, 2016, then that...