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NCRA Guidelines for CART Providers

The CART Community of Interest Committee has issued a set of guidelines: "Consumer Awareness and Recommended Style and Format Guidelines for Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) Providers." The document covers many issues from dictionary building and troubleshooting to understanding the consumer to hardware tips.

• Consumer Awareness and Recommended Style and Format Guidelines for CART Providers

The Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC) has released A/153: Mobile DTV Standards.

The Mobile DTV Standards define “the technical specifications necessary for broadcasters to provide new services for mobile and handheld devices using the digital television (DTV) transmissions.” These standards mark the first time that a video program transmission technology was planned from the start to support closed captioning, rather than requiring an after-the-fact retrofit or modification.  

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