A Foxtel spokesman, however, says the broadcaster exceeds industry standards and is subject to tougher regulations that free-to-air TV.
A national advocacy group for Deaf Australians has expressed its disappointment with the rules governing captions and subscription television.
The media watchdog has acknowledged pay TV providers incur “significant financial costs” due to caption quotas. ACMA has also suggested it is better for a program to provide some captions than for that program to be removed altogether so as not to be penalised under the relevant legislation.Deaf Australia’s chief executive Kyle Miers says the watchdog’s leniency, however, will have an impact on the Deaf community.
Mr Miers said it was unfair for a Deaf person to be charged a full price for a video-on-demand subscription but only be able to access a portion of the content.In Australia free-to-air broadcasters such as Seven and the ABC must caption all programs that air on their main channels between 6am and midnight. News and current affairs must be captioned at all times.
The percentage of captioning and requesting for exemptions is a legal way to discriminate against us.A Foxtel spokesman said the company had a track record of exceeding industry standards and is required by law to progressively achieve a 100 per cent captioning target across all of its channels.
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