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Digital Resources for Subtitling

Visit this link to find checklists, infographics, helpsheets and blogs, all designed to help you with your digital captioning and subtitling.

Do’s and Dont’s of Designing for Accessibility

By GOV.UK

The dos and don’ts of designing for accessibility are general guidelines, best design practices for making services accessible in government. Currently, there are six different posters in the series that cater to users from these areas: low vision, D/deaf and hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum and users of screen readers.

Access Guide – Ensuring your venues and events are open to all

By Luminate Scotland

This guide is a compilation of ‘top tips’ and general guidance for working with and welcoming disabled artists and audiences of all ages. We hope it offers long and short term options for people working to any budget. It is not going to give you all the answers (we don’t have them) but we hope … More

Building Accessibility

By RNIB

Bringing you accessibility solutions to grow your business With nearly 150 years’ experience of working together with blind and partially sighted people, our knowledge can help your business open up a host of new opportunities. Our accessibility services include:

Stories for Lipreading

By Stories for Lipreading

Do you have hearing loss? Are you looking for somewhere to practice your lipreading skills. If so, you’ve come to the right place. This website provides videos of stories being read aloud, so that you can practice your lipreading skills and enjoy some good writing at the same time. You can print out the scripts to help … More

Template for Working with Sign Language Interpreters

By Nick Beese

As a British Sign Language user, Nick Beese’s template for working with Sign Language/English interpreters is a useful prep sheet, which you can make work for you; remove sections you don’t think you need or add new ones. If you are a teacher or student this could include a glossary of all the terms used on … More

Social Stories for Autism-Friendly Screenings

By Dimensions

An overview of Dimensions’ work with ODEON, Cineworld, Vue and Showcase to host autism friendly screenings at over 300 cinemas nationwide. Links to films screening on Sunday mornings for all audiences, in a sensory friendly and inclusive environment.

Cinema management. Why be accessible

By Action on Hearing Loss

Having hearing loss shouldn’t stop audiences from going to the cinema. This article includes tips on how to find screenings, how to offer feedback and the equipment available.

Guiding a Blind or Partially Sighted Person

By RNIB

Practical advice and information to help you feel confident about guiding people with sight problems. A how-to-guide to support meeting, greeting and guiding.

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Stats

There are 11 million people with hearing loss across the UK, that’s around one in six of us.
There are 50,000 children with hearing loss in the UK. Around half are born with hearing loss while the other half lose their hearing during childhood.
An estimated 900,000 people in the UK have severe or profound hearing loss.
It is estimated that there are at least 24,000 people across the UK who use British Sign Language (BSL) as their main language (although there are likely to be more that we don’t know about).
Hearing loss can lead to withdrawal from social situations, emotional distress, and depression. Research shows that it increases the risk of loneliness, but only for those who don’t wear hearing aids.
Hearing loss can increase the risk of dementia by up to five times, but evidence also suggests that hearing aids may reduce these risks.^[1]
70% of people with hearing loss who responded to a survey said that hearing loss sometimes prevented them from fulfilling their potential at work.^[2]
35% of business leaders surveyed in a YouGov poll don’t feel confident about employing a person with hearing loss.^[3]
Nine out of ten respondents said background noise was the biggest problem they face when eating out.^[4]
87% people with hearing loss have started to watch a programme on-demand and found that it had no subtitles.^[5]
Less than 10% of respondents rated the provisions at their local cinema as good or excellent.
5% of respondents said they would visit the cinema more frequently if provisions were improved.
91% of respondents found the number of subtitled screenings in their area inadequate.
61% of respondents felt the staff at their local cinema were not aware of their needs.
64% of respondents felt the marketing of these provisions at their local cinema was inadequate or inconsistent.^[6]

^[1] Action on Hearing Loss, Facts and Figures 2018
^[2] Action on Hearing Loss, Hidden Disadvantage report
^[3] Action on Hearing Loss, Working for Change report
^[4] Action on Hearing Loss, Speak Easy survey
^[5] Action on Hearing Loss, Progress on Pause report
^[6] Independent Cinema Office, Developing Deaf Audiences in Your Cinema

Organisations

Action on Hearing Loss supports and helps people experiencing hearing loss, so they can take back control and live the live they choose.

BDA is the UK’s leading membership organisation and registered charity run by Deaf people for Deaf people. The BDA delivers a range of services to achieve its aims of empowering Deaf people to overcome difficulties that they face on a daily basis.

National Deaf Children’s Society is the leading charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people.

Sense is a national disability charity that supports people with complex communication needs, including those who are deafblind, to be understood, connected and valued.

Deafblind UK supports people with combined sight and hearing loss to live the lives they want.

downloads

* d/Deaf HOH national and regional organisations.xlsx * 888 Film Club at Opening our Doors - For your eyes only.pdf