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Listed below are comments made by GretaG between Friday, 9th May 2008 and Monday, 27th April 2009.

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Seetha Kumar's NDI 2009 speech in full 9:10pm on 27 Apr 2009 Whilst its good the BBC is reaching out, what about providing access for all people who actively use the internet first. E.g. there's no subtitles on video on your news pages (different from iPlayer). Same goes for live streaming.
Inauguration online 10:26pm on 22 Jan 2009 I would have followed online, but it wasn't subtitled. About time the BBC sorted out its accessibility of live transmissions!
Subtitles & Signing Advances On BBC iPlayer 02:04am on 12 May 2008 I've blogged about this issue here:
http://www.alisonbryan.com/thoughts/2008/05/bbc_iplayer_accessibility_upda.html
Subtitles & Signing Advances On BBC iPlayer 11:35am on 09 May 2008 The major failing here is programmes are being labelled as subtitled when in fact they are not. The download indicates the programme carries subtitles, and when you go to play there's no S button.

Two weeks ago, I downloaded EIGHT programmes that were labelled as subtitled. This is over 2gb worth of bandwidth, and totally unusable to me, and ultimately the BBC's negligence costs me money.

Whether a programme actually carries subtitles or not, is very much a luck of the draw. The BBC needs to sort it out. Also it would be good to have subtitles on the flash version, since deaf non-Windows users can't actually access any programmes yet. (Deaf people appear to be disproportionate users of alternative platforms).

I would also like to know when the BBC plans on providing subtitles for e.g. subtitles for news videos. The BBC's accessibility guidelines state:

"8.1. You SHOULD provide subtitles/captions (that can be turned off and on) for all AV content. This includes AV content featured in interactive features or Flash games."

So why isn't this being enforced in practice?

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