ID’S PATRICIA DE LILLE QUESTIONS COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER OVER MORE EXTENSIVE SUBTITLING FOR DEAF VIEWERS

3 MARCH 2010-ID President Patricia de Lille has submitted a question to the Minister of Communications, for written response, asking whether the SABC ‘intends using available technology by means if subtitling to assist’ deaf viewers to view its television programming.

ID President Patricia de Lille has submitted a question to the Minister of Communications, for written response, asking whether the SABC ‘intends using available technology by means if subtitling to assist’ deaf viewers to view its television programming.

The full question is below.

For media enquiries, please call Steven Otter, spokesperson for Patricia de Lille, on 084 233 3811


National Assembly
Written Reply
Date submitted: 2 March 2010

Ms Patricia de Lille (ID) to ask the Minister of Communications;

Whether the SABC intends to use available technology by means of subtitling to assist with more than one million deaf South Africans to view its television programming and if not; why not?

ENDS…

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