Indian government comes up with accessibility standards for hearing impaired on TV channels
The Indian government has come up with new accessibility standards, under which almost all television channels will have to ensure that they either carry captions or sign language to help the hearing impaired understand the programming. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Tuesday floated a draft of the standards and asked for feedback from the stakeholders within a span of 21 days.
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