Thread Subject: Re: Telecom Subcomm. Discussion: Audio Output

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From: Karen Peltz Strauss
Date: Mon, Nov 06 2006 4:17 PM

Section 255 does cover both manufacturers and service providers, but under Section 255, the Access Board was only given authority to develop guidelines for the accessibility of telecommunications equipment and CPE. This is why the original TAAC guidelines only covered equipment and not services. Then the FCC used its own jurisdiction to extend the guidelines to services as well.

So our task here is only limited to what the Access Board can do - and that is to revise the equipment guidelines.

Karen
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From: Jim Tobias
To: 'Pam Ransom' ; 'TEITAC Telecommunications Subcommittee'
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [teitac-telecom] Telecom Subcomm. Discussion: Audio Output





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From: Pam Ransom [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 12:13 PM
To: TEITAC Telecommunications Subcommittee
Subject: Re: [teitac-telecom] Telecom Subcomm. Discussion: Audio Output


Dear Mary, Brenda and All - I have a clarification and suggested correction within the "Process" paragraph of the email that was sent to the telecom subcommittee.

"Process: Overall, the task of the Telecommunications subcommittee is to provide recommendations for refreshing 508 Standards and 255 Guidelines. As a reminder, the laws and implementing regulations have distinct purposes.

(1) Section 255 guidelines apply to all manufacturers of Terminal Telecommunications equipment and to all Telecommunications Service providers in the United States. [ Correction: The Section 255 Access Board 255 Guidelines ONLY apply to manufacturers of customer premises equipment not telecom services. This process is to refresh the Access Board guidelines. ]

I don't understand your correction. I thought that the Section 255 language specifically included both manufacturers and service providers. Also, Doesn't Section 251(a) forbid service providers from installing any network equipment that would undercut 255?


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