Celebrating a TV accessibility breakthrough

Deaf children from Heathlands School in St. Alban’s and Mary Hare School in Newbury described their experiences of accessing television to Mark Thompson, BBC Director General at a parliamentary reception on Wednesday 7 May.

The event was held by NDCS and the Royal National Institute for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People (RNID) to celebrate the achievement of the BBC in reaching 100% subtitling on all of its main channels.

Speakers included the Rt Hon Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who showed his support for the campaign to make TV more accessible to deaf people.

The increased use of subtitles shows the commitment the television industry has to becoming fully accessible to deaf children and young people.

NDCS believes that there is, however, much more work to be done to ensure deaf children and young people can enjoy the same programmes as their hearing peers.

Visit our campaigns section to find out more about the work NDCS is doing around TV accessibility.