Audio-Visual Media Services Directive (AVMSD): Has it made progress for media accessibility?

Audio-Visual Media Services Directive (AVMSD): Has it made progress for media accessibility?
from11 am to 12.30 pm

Online. Zoom

Adopted in 2018, the Audio-visual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) creates an EU-level framework on audio-visual media, both for traditional TV broadcasts and video on-demand platforms. Article 7 is especially relevant for persons with disabilities, as it establishes, among other provisions, an obligation to make audio-visual media services continuously and progressively accessible. This means that more TV programmes and audio-visual content include subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing, audiodescription, spoken subtitles and sign language interpretation.

By September 2020, Member States had to transpose the provisions of the directive into national law. To support this process, EDF developed a toolkit giving recommendations on how to implement Article 7 in an ambitious manner. Three years later, this webinar aims at exploring:

  • How Member States have interpreted and implemented Article 7.
  • What actions media regulators, broadcasters and video on-demand platforms are taking on media accessibility.
  • What the views of persons with disabilities are.
  • What the European Commission plans are in the months to come.

To touch upon these issues, this webinar will develop around short presentations by relevant stakeholders: Organisations of Persons with disabilities; the European Commission, Media Regulators, Broadcasters and Video on-Demand Platforms.

This event will provide International sign interpretation and real-time captioning in English.

Speakers

  •  Sofia Karttunen – Legal Officer, European Commission
  • Rebecca Parman – Legal Adviser, Swedish Press and Broadcasting Authority
  • Gion Linder – Head of Accessibility Services, Swiss Txt AG and Chairman of  the Eurovision Access Services Experts Group (European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
  • Shanta Arul – Director, Global Public Policy (Technology & Innovation) at Netflix
  • Antoine Fobe – Head of Campaigning, European Blind Union (EBU)
  • Lidia Best –  President, European Federation of Hard of Hearing People (EFHOH)

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