The BBC has published its guidelines to programme makers to ensure visually impaired licence fee payers receive maximum enjoyment from television shows, in a move designed to encourage other broadcasters follow suit.
Programme makers must ensure captions, foreign language subtitles and other text shown on the screen is spoken out loud according to the guidelines, which were drawn up with the help of the Royal National Institute for the Blind.
The guidelines, Text on Screen for Visually Impaired Viewers, which are already used by the BBC, also include advice on graphics and easily seen colours.
Mark Byford, the BBC’s diversity representative on the executive committee, said: "We now publish the guidelines so that audiences can call us to account, and also as best practice for the rest of the industry."
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