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To: Welsh Assembly Government
Subtitles on streaming of Welsh Assembly sessions
Provide subtitles for all sessions in the Welsh Assembly. At present this does not happen on BBC Parliament site or on other media showing live sessions.
Why is it that so much effort goes in to publicising Assembly sessions but no thought to how this will be viewed by those who are hard of hearing or deaf?
Why is this important?
I am deaf and very interested in local government and politics in Wales as are many other deaf and hard of hearing people. There are 10 million deaf or hard of hearing people across the UK. Something like 110,000 in Wales and the figure is always rising.
It is incredibly important for deaf and hard of hearing people to keep in touch by using social media and computer access as so much communication is out of reach if you are deaf. There fore subtitles become an essential tool for communication in this day and age.
