FCC extends Audible Crawl Rule waiver for 18 months

Agency delays enforcement until Nov. 2027 of a rule requiring emergency information provided visually must be made audibly accessible

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WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission’s Media Bureau has issued a Memorandum and Order once again delaying the implementation of the so-called “Audible Crawl Rule.”

The rule applies to “video programming distributors and video programming providers,” including TV stations, who must “provide an aural representation of visual, non-textual emergency information that is displayed during non-newscast programming, such as radar maps or other graphics, on a secondary audio stream” for persons who are blind or visually impaired.

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