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Accessibility of Football Broadcasts on TV Research Report
This report explores blind and partially sighted people’s experiences of watching football broadcasts on TV. It investigates people’s preferences for which commentary or audio description style is enjoyable, accessible and enables the match to be followed accurately.
TV Content Focus Group 2 (Sports) - Major sports events
The purpose of this focus group was to explore blind and partially sighted people’s perspectives on watching live sports on TV and how they would like to see coverage made accessible and enjoyable. The session also explored blind and partially sighted people’s preferences for how audio description should be implemented on live sports coverage.
TV Content Focus Group 1 (Sports) - Football matches on TV
In order to understand the viewing environment of the participants and whether it has any correlation with the style of commentary they prefer, participants were asked, generally, did they watch matches alone or with family and friends.
RNIB report on improving audio description for documentary television programs
Audio description is described by Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) as additional commentary for television programmes that explains what is happening on screen.
Are you really listening?
The equipment needs of blind and partially sighted consumers for accessible and usable digital radio. Access to radio is key to the quality of life of blind and partially sighted people. Research shows that listening to the radio is a favoured and valued pastime for many.
VI Lives – understanding the experiences of people living with vision impairment
We’ve teamed up with two other leading charities to produce a new in-depth report into the experiences of visually impaired people in the UK. The report is called VI Lives and is based on hundreds of conversations with people who live with a vision impairment.
Sight Loss and Technology Briefing
This briefing brings together existing evidence on the role and uptake of technology by blind and partially sighted people.
Interactive whiteboards: screen sharing with learners with vision impairment
Interactive whiteboards have become a standard fixture in most classrooms, but learners with low vision are still faced with challenges seeing what is being presented while taking an active part in the lesson.
Smart glasses
Smart glasses help people with very low vision to determine distance and detect objects up to three metres away. RNIB have conducted research into smart glasses, testing them with over 200 people.
Tackling Digital Exclusion: older blind and partially sighted people and the internet
Whilst the use of the internet has grown dramatically in recent years, particular groups of people in society are less likely to be online than others. This includes older people with sight loss. In 2011, BT supported RNIB to investigate the barriers preventing older people with sight loss from using the internet.
