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

Because movie theaters may comply with the requirement to provide captioning at all screenings of a digital movie produced or distributed with such features through the provision of open movie captions, the Department has added a requirement that movie theater staff know how to turn on the open movie captions.  This requirement applies to the extent that a movie theater intends to comply with this rulemaking by providing open movie captioning at all showings or on-demand whenever requested by or for a movie patron with a hearing disability.  Since the Initial RA, the Department has changed its methodology for estimating the training costs associated with this rulemaking, and the Department’s training costs estimate in the Final RA includes the associated costs to train movie theater staff on how to turn on the open movie captions (Section 3.7).