Key trends and challenges to the right of all individuals to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds through the Internet 2011, para. 52
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In the United States of America, the Senate unanimously passed the "Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act" in 2010. The Act seeks to ensure full access for users who are deaf, hard of hearing, late deafened or deaf-blind to evolving high-speed broadband, wireless and other Internet protocol technologies. Moreover, the Act stipulates that accessibility features are preserved when materials are offered online, that telephones used over the Internet must be compatible with hearing aids and that television programmes must also be captioned when delivered over the Internet.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
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Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
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Equality & Inclusion
Health
Year
2011
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Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Opinion, Report to the UNGA (2011), A/66/290, para. 52.