Accessibility Standards for Persons with Disabilities in Television Programmes – MoIB

Accessibility Standards for TV Programmes for Hearing Impaired – Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The objective of this policy is to formulate and lay down Accessibility Standards for TV programmes for persons with hearing impairment.

Television & Set Top Boxes

Details are given in the schedule.

• Television & Set Top boxes should provide easy options to access the captions, sub-titles and/or sign language interpretation.
• Television, set top box and remote controls must ensure that key controls are easily distinguished and identifiable.

Captioning Guidelines

• The captioning should be accurate, synchronized, complete and free from errors of spelling and grammar.
• Position of captioning, case, italics and underlining, color and font should be such as it is easily visible/ readable for hearing impaired

Sign Language Guidelines

Sign Language interpretation must be provided in a picture-in-picture mode and it must be accurate and convey clear message to the hearing impaired.

Online/ Internet TV/Television programmes through Internet

The accessibility standards defined and prescribed for TV programmes being broadcast through traditional hardware would apply ‘mutatis mutandis’ on the same Television programmes shown through Internet platforms.

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Accessibility Standards for TV Programmes for Hearing Impaired – seeking comments from General Public and Stakeholders by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.