[access-uk] Re: BBC IPlayer - how not to have the deaf signer and get A D?
- From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:04:04 +0100
If you read the Access 2.0 blog on the Ouch website, you'll see that we
look at the latest in access on the iPlayer about once a week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/access20
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Catherine Turner
Sent: 09 October 2007 13:02
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: BBC IPlayer - how not to have the deaf signer
and get A D?
Hello Ray,
I haven't downloaded the program you're talking about but on the search
results it says "Original (subtitles) version only". Are you saying
that you have sign language interpretation showing, rather than
subtitles?
According to the help, neither "Signing Zone" or audio described
programs are currently available but will be in the future. I don't
know what "Signing Zone" programs are but presume they are sign language
interpreted programs.
I did user testing for the iplayer a few months ago and then there
didn't seem to be any audio description available, which I commented on.
Is there a way of contacting them to ask about this? I haven't found
one.
Catherine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "VI-Genaccess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <vi-genaccess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
"Access-Uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 11:41 PM
Subject: [access-uk] BBC IPlayer - how not to have the deaf signer and
get A D?
> Hi.
>
> downloaded the BBC IPlayer a couple of days ago and, after some
> phaffing around, have got it to work.
>
> My first programme is the first episode of Michael Palin's New Europe,
> which I've a few days left to watch. I'm disappointed though that I'm
> lumbered with the person signing for the deaf on-screen. As if to add
> insult to injury - well for me - theirs no audio description on my
> download and I know their is on the TV broadcasts. Could I, should i,
> have chosen an AD version at download, and have got to choose not to
> have on-screen signing for the deaf?
>
> Sure it is a good thing that signing support is there, but it says
> something to me that AD isn't and the place of our needs in disability
> access terms.
>
> I cannot find anything in the IPlayer to turn off signing or turn on
> Audio description, by the way.
>
> Picture and sound quality are fine.
>
> From Ray
> I can be contacted off-list at:
> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
>
>
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