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'Accessibility Standards' for disabled a reality
The New Indian Express
|September 17, 2024
FILMS will now be accessible to the hearing and visually impaired.
Standards, aimed at making cinema accessible for people with disabilities in public places like theatres, have come into effect, the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry said on Monday. The ministry had notified the guidelines in March.
"All feature films that are to be certified in more than one language would be required to provide at least one accessibility feature each for the hearing impaired and visually impaired, i.e. closed captioning/ open captioning and audio description," the ministry said in a statement.
It announced that the "accessibility standards" module in e-Cinepramaan has been successfully deployed as per the September 15 deadline. "The applicants may now apply/submit their films with the required accessibility features for the hearing and visually impaired, as specified in the guidelines," the ministry said.
This story is from the September 17, 2024 edition of The New Indian Express.
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