Justice Department Publishes Notice of Proposed Rule Making Related to Movie Captioning and Audio Description

On July 23, 2014, the Attorney General signed the Department's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to revise the Department's Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) title III regulation to require movie theaters to exhibit movies with closed movie captioning and audio description, to require theaters to provide notice to the public about the availability of these services, and to ensure that theaters have staff available who can provide information to patrons about the use of these services. This NPRM will soon be published in the Federal Register. Once it is published, there will be a 60-day comment period.

To find out more about the ADA or this NPRM,
call the Justice Department's toll-free ADA Information Line at 800-514-0301 
or
 800-514-0383 (TDD), or access its www.ada.gov website.