Accessibility Complaint Filing Categories

File a complaint about:

 

Or, select the category that best describes your accessibility problem:

 

Communications Services and Equipment

Advanced Communications

  • Electronic messaging service or equipment (such as text messaging, instant messaging, or e-mail)
  • Internet voice chat service or equipment (such as using your computer to talk to a friend)
  • Interoperable video conferencing service or equipment 

 

Hearing Aid Compatibility for Telephones

  • Wireless or mobile telephones (such as a cellphone or smartphone)
  • Wireline or landline telephones (such as your home phone) 

 

Internet Browsers Built into Mobile Phones

  • Wireless or mobile telephones (such as a cellphone or smartphone)
  • Accessibility required for individuals who are blind or visually impaired

 

Real Time Text

  • Wireless or mobile telephone service or equipment (such as a cellphone or smartphone) 

 

Telephone Service or Equipment

  • Wireless or mobile telephone service or equipment (such as a cellphone or smartphone)
  • Wireline or landline telephone service or equipment (such as your home phone)
  • Cable or Internet phone service or equipment (such as home phone service provided by your Internet service provider)

 

Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS)

  • TRS includes, for example, TTY relay, Internet protocol (IP) relay, video relay service (VRS), captioned telephone service (CTS) and speech-to-speech (STS) relay service.

 

Video Programming on Television and Other Equipment

Access to Emergency Information on Television

Closed Captioning

  • Closed captioning on television (from a television station or subscription television provider, for example, cable, fiber optic or satellite).  You have two options to file a complaint about closed captioning on television:

 

           1. File a complaint with your video programming distributor.  Contact information for distributors of video programming on television is available in the FCC’s video programming distributor registry.

           2. File a complaint with the FCC.

 

  • Closed captioning of programming delivered via the Internet (for example, streamed or downloaded to your computer, tablet, smartphone, television, video game console, or other Internet-enabled device) 
  • Display of closed captioning (decoder and display requirements for equipment, such as televisions, set-top boxes, and video players)

 

Television and Set-Top Box Controls, Menus, and Program Guides

  • Accessibility requirements for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
  • Simple and easy-to-use method for activating closed captioning and audio description

 

Audio Description

  • Narrated descriptions of a television program's key visual elements; also called video description

 

Other Accessibility Problems

National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program (NDBEDP) 

  • NDBEDP, also known as iCanConnect, provides equipment needed to make telecommunications, advanced communications, and the Internet accessible to low-income individuals who have both significant vision loss and significant hearing loss. 

 

For disability-related accessibility problems in matters covered under FCC rules that are not listed above, or if you need assistance, please contact the FCC’s Disability Rights Office at dro@fcc.gov, or call 202-418-2517 (voice), or 1-844-432-2275 (videophone).