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Mark Hoda

Royal National Institute for Deaf People, European Campaigns Officer

Television subtitling: the situation in UK and in Europe, RNID's role, collaboration with EC and CENELEC; Europe without Frontiers and the European Parliament vote to improve television access for disabled people

My presentation will cover the following arguments:

• The importance of television in society and right to have access to it
• Statistics on hearing impairment in Europe to show the size of the audience for subtitling
• The benefits of subtitling for the wider public
• The subtitling industry & provision of subtitling- cost, new technology etc.
• The relevance of the issue of access to television Without Frontiers
• The European Parliaments support through their report on TVWF
• The role of national action plans on access in increasing subtitling & sign language
• CENELEC TV for All Report
• Future action on TVWF and TV for All

PowerPoint presentation for the eAccessibility Conference, based on a presentation to the Television without Frontiers contact committee about subtitling (and lobbying the European Commission and the Parliament on the directive):

• PDF file (175 Kb)

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CENELEC Television for All Working Group: Present activities and future plans

Mark will also present the presentation prepared by Paco Cabeza Lopez, CENELEC Officer, based on the information prepared with Gerry Stallard, expert of the Group:

• PDF file (150 Kb)

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