Policy paper

Television Access Services for People with Sensory Impairments

Legislation requires broadcasters to meet minimum targets

• From: Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Published: 6 August 2010

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Television Access for People with Sensory Impairments

PDF, 113 KB, 16 pages

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Television Access for People with Sensory Impairments

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Details

Legislation requires broadcasters to meet minimum targets for subtitling and, on their digital services, signing and audio description of their programmes.

We have produced an updated leaflet which provides more information on this subject.

• Television Access for People with Sensory Impairments (PDF 113kb)
• Television Access for People with Sensory Impairments (RTF 1mb)

Published 6 August 2010