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FCC mandates all mobile phones in the US to be compatible with hearing aids (www.androidauthority.com)
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The rule also mandates universal Bluetooth standards and volume control compliance for all smartphones.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Same thing over on education. US government entities down to the local level have to comply with WCAG 2.1 by April 2026 iorc, with some exceptions for content created before the cutoff. The exceptions aren't clearly defined which is causing me a bit of a headache.

I mean, I'd love for all of our legacy documents and images to magically get image descriptions and quality OCR, but the archives have a terabyte of images and PDFs. It doesn't help that the ruling uses "archives" to mean "legacy stuff unlikely to be used" and we use "archives" to mean "stuff about the history of the college, which students are encouraged to consult".

Anyways, I'm all for accessibility. It's good. I'm just borrowing worries from tomorrow about implementation.

I just had the thought that some of our documents are handwritten in ye olde handwriting. That will be the biggest pain in the neck to transcribe. (Shout-out to Transkribus for making it suck less, but it'll still need to be proofread). I worry that we'll scan and post fewer of our documents going forward if we have to provide a transcription when we post them.