Final Regulatory Assessment and Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Final Rule - Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations - Movie Theaters; Movie Captioning and Audio Description

The Department has lowered the minimum required scoping for captioning and audio description devices in order to ensure that the scoping requirements sufficiently provide access to individuals with hearing and vision disabilities who need and will use the devices without requiring movie theaters to purchase more equipment than is necessary.  The Department has adopted the minimum captioning device scoping suggested in a joint comment submitted by the deaf and hard of hearing community in conjunction with the movie exhibition industry.  The Final RA uses these scoping requirements to estimate the costs of the final rule, as presented in Section 3.3.3.  Similarly, the Department has adopted the minimum audio description device scoping suggested by the movie exhibition industry.  Section 3.3.4 shows the audio description device scoping requirements that the Department used in the Final RA’s cost estimation.