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47 U.S.C. § 619Internet browsers built into telephones used with public mobile services

submitted 92 years ago by Pub. L. 111-260 to r/title-47-TELECOMMUNICATIONS · 252 words · no verdicts yet

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This section requires certain included Internet browsers in mobile telephones to be accessible to people who are blind or have visual impairments, unless that is not achievable. It also allows manufacturers and providers to meet this duty either directly or by using affordable third-party tools.

(a) Accessibility. If a manufacturer includes an Internet browser in a telephone used with public mobile services, or a mobile-service provider arranges to include one in telephones it sells, the manufacturer or provider must make the browser’s functions—including launching it—accessible to and usable by people who are blind or have a visual impairment, unless achieving that is not possible. This does not require making another browser accessible, or making Internet content, applications, or services accessible, except as needed to let people with disabilities use the included browser to reach them. (b) Industry flexibility. The manufacturer or provider may meet subsection (a) by making the telephone or service accessible without third-party tools, or by using third-party applications, devices, software, hardware, or customer-premises equipment that consumers can obtain at a nominal cost and that people with disabilities can use.
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(a) Accessibility

If a manufacturer of a telephone used with public mobile services (as such term is defined in section 610(b)(4)(B) of this title) includes an Internet browser in such telephone, or if a provider of mobile service arranges for the inclusion of a browser in telephones to sell to customers, the manufacturer or provider shall ensure that the functions of the included browser (including the ability to launch the browser) are accessible to and usable by individuals who are blind or have a visual impairment, unless doing so is not achievable, except that this subsection shall not impose any requirement on such manufacturer or provider—

(1)

to make accessible or usable any Internet browser other than a browser that such manufacturer or provider includes or arranges to include in the telephone; or

(2)

to make Internet content, applications, or services accessible or usable (other than enabling individuals with disabilities to use an included browser to access such content, applications, or services).

(b) Industry flexibility

A manufacturer or provider may satisfy the requirements of subsection (a) with respect to such telephone or services by—

(1)

ensuring that the telephone or services that such manufacture or provider offers is accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities without the use of third party applications, peripheral devices, software, hardware, or customer premises equipment; or

(2)

using third party applications, peripheral devices, software, hardware, or customer premises equipment that is available to the consumer at nominal cost and that individuals with disabilities can access.

Source credit: (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VII, § 718, as added Pub. L. 111–260, title I, § 104(a), Oct. 8, 2010, 124 Stat. 2761.)

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  • 1934Enacted · Pub. L. 111-260 · 124 Stat. 2761

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