VRS – Ofcom Report
Ofcom have published their research into how video relay services are provided internationally. As UKCoD’s Deaf Access to Communication group is working to identify a model that will see greater provision in the UK, the research will be valuable in pointing the way for some of the policy and infrastructure challenges we face. Lessons from […]
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The United Kingdom Council on Deafness and TAG give joint response to the issues raised in the recent DCMS seminar paper on the Communications Review Joint Response
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Jim Edwards, Chair of UK Council on Deafness wrote to Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries in June, welcoming recent commitment to explore the improvement of broadcast access services for people with sensory loss in the Communications Green Paper. A reply has been received
Read MoreVRS Today! is closing but campaign for relay services continues
Many of you will know we, TAG and many other organisations have been working actively for some time to ensure there are effective relay services for deaf people in the UK. One of our campaign partners was Sorenson
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Further to the Ofcom Review of Relay Services: Further Consultation, UKCoD and TAG welcomed the opportunity to respond. UKCoD/TAG submission to the consultation
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UKCoD write to Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), welcoming recent commitment to explore the improvement of broadcast access services for people with sensory loss in the Communications Green Paper. Letter to Ed Vaisey MP
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A new international media campaign has just been launched to raise awareness of captioning/STT in theatres and elsewhere, led by an American organisation called Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning (CCAC)
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UKCoD writes to BT, MGB and UKCTA in response to their reply to signatories to the open letter published in the Times. The letter reads…
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Ofcom have today published Review of Relay Services: Further Consultation. The Closing date for responses is 13 July 2012.
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Following the open letter in the Times, representatives from the sector are being copied into a reply from BT, UK Competitive Telecommunications Association and the Mobile Broadband Group, with it they included a letter sent to the Minister last November, initial reactions range from disbelief in the telecoms companies misunderstanding of deaf peoples needs to […]
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