ESA Requests CVAA Waiver On Videogame Software, Says It's In Public Interest

The FCC should extend a waiver of accessibility requirements for videogame software until January 2018, the Entertainment Software Association said in a petition posted Wednesday in docket 10-213. The waiver of the advanced communication systems requirements of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act is to expire in 2016 (see 1509170006) and was granted in 2012. Without the waiver, ESA said members would have to make their products accessible to those with disabilities. Extending the waiver is in the public interest, ESA said; it would allow industry to continue to work on developing accessibility technology, ESA said.