BBC Radio 4 program In Touch: News for Blind People has an interview with Ed Vaizey, the UK Communications Minister. In it he talks about the voluntary approach to audio description quotas on television.
The much awaited talking menu set-top box developed by the UK's Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is available for pre-order.
Originally a subsidiary of ITV, the company was sold to the US-based Medici Group in 2007 fo £8m.
ITFC is a part-owner of Captioning and Subtitling International (CSI), which in Australia provides captions for the ABC.
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Following a long-running campaign by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), the UK government has announced its support for a 20% target for audio description (AD) on television.
The announcement follows a review into access services conducted by the UK communications regulator Ofcom in 2009. Ofcom canvassed three options for the future of AD: leaving the target at its current 10%, increasing it to 20% over all channels, or increasing it to 20% on the 10 public service broadcasting channels.
