Rosenworcel Emphasizes Future to National Association of the Deaf
The most important thing the FCC can do to improve the lives of the deaf and hard of hearing is “make sure our country has world-leading wired and wireless networks, and that everyone, everywhere is connected,” Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said…
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in remarks at the National Association of the Deaf Conference in Chicago July 3. “Beyond that, we need to mobilize the expertise of people with disabilities to develop and deploy new technologies,” she said, pointing to the agency’s Disability Advisory Committee and Disability Rights Office as examples. She touted the FCC’s recent initiatives to improve accessibility for emergency alerting and the upcoming meeting item on caption display setting accessibility (see 2406270068). Rosenworcel also discussed recent advances in mass market products that increase accessibility, such as a virtual reality headset that uses AI to generate real-time captions. These services are available not "because of some specialty assistive device designed and marketed exclusively to people who are deaf or blind,” she said, but because of applications that “run on devices that were made for everyone.” Rosenworcel said making new technology “built for all” is good for business. “We can make the digital future work for all of us -- the deaf and hard-of-hearing included.” The agency released her speech Monday.