Telecommunications Disability Standard (Requirements for Customer Equipment for Use with the Standard Telephone Service - Features for Special Needs of Persons with Disabilities - AS / ACIF S040) 2015 - Australian Government

Description

You will be required to comply with this disability standard if you manufacture modify or supply customer equipment designed, or intended, for connection to a telecommunications network.

The purpose of this disability standard is to provide requirements for customer equipment that:

  • is for use in connection with the standard telephone service
  • is for use primarily by persons who do not have a disability
  • has features that are designed to cater for any or all of the special needs of persons with disabilities.

Service type

Code of Practice

A code of practice is a set of rules which details how people in a certain industry should behave. A code of practice can be defined as a result of legislation or by industry regulators and bodies.

Act(s) name

Telecommunications Act 1997 Australian Government

Administering agency

Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

Australian Communications and Media Authority

Communications Infrastructure

Contact details

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