Digital Broadcasting - the future
Chair: Dan Jellinek, Editor, E-Access Bulletin
Panellists:
Anthony Dooley, Television Policy Advisor, Broadcasting Policy Division, Department Culture Media and Sport
Ruth Myers, Chair, TAG

The switchover to digital TV from analogue may create more barriers to accessing information and entertainment for people with disabilities such as vision and mobility impairments and deafness. Electronic programme guides (on-screen menus) are inaccessible to many and in an ageing population, the problem will worsen. Similar issues relating to digital radio may also be covered. The current and future state of special access services, including subtitling and audio description, will also be under scrutiny and in the context of the transmission from analogue to digital TV, panellists will also discuss the Digital Switchover Help Scheme and the Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill.