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

Unlike closed movie captioning hardware, one unit of audio description hardware per auditorium is not necessary to provide audio description.  For some manufacturers, the captioning hardware includes audio description capabilities.  Other manufacturers require a single audio description programming station, which is sufficient to provide audio description in an entire movie theater establishment, regardless of the number of auditoriums.  Information regarding the characteristics of the captioning and audio description equipment from the primary manufacturers is described in further detail in Section 3.4.2.  For purposes of the cost estimation, the Final RA assumes that one unit of audio description hardware is required per movie theater.  Table 3-16 presents the average number of auditoriums by venue type and estimates the relevant number of audio description hardware units required by the scoping requirements using the one unit per movie theater assumption.