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Making TV ads accessible for people with sight loss
On UK television, about a quarter of programming is delivered with audio description.
Freeview launches Accessible TV Guide
Freeview has launched an Accessible TV Guide for Freeview Play televisions and set-top boxes.
First Ever Museum Zoom Tour for People with Sight Loss in NI
Dr Jackie Witherow and Kathryn Thomson standing in museum foyer Sight loss charity the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has been working with National Museums NI to ensure its four sites are more accessible for blind and partially sighted people.
Accessible gaming grows with all-inclusive experiences
Gaming is not yet truly inclusive but there is a rise in the number of computer games blind and partially sighted gamers can play and enjoy.
RNIB NI Welcomes the Accessibility of the StopCOVID NI App
As part of RNIB NI’s ongoing campaign to address accessible healthcare information, they have been working with the Department of Health and Digital Health and Care NI, to ensure that the new StopCOVID NI Proximity App is accessible. Particularly for those individuals with a range of physical and sensory disabilities. This includes the 55,600 blind and partially sighted people living in Northern Ireland.
How to log complaints about audio description
Ofcom Code on Television Access Services sets targets for the audio-description that broadcasters in the UK are required to provide under the Communications Act 2003.
A new dawn: first time using an app to vote
Richard Holmes, RNIB's Parliamentary and Public Affairs Manager blogs on his first experience of voting independently using a smartphone app.
Why we now need regulation for access services on On-Demand TV more than ever
In the first half of 2019, just over 75 per cent of the programming on Channel 4's E4 was broadcast with audio description (AD).