While some positive progress is being made towards increasing accessibility of media content for those with disabilities, full accessibility still depends largely on the "good will" of individuals and organizations rather than strict enforcement of laws and standards. Guidelines for accessibility are not fully binding, and content is often adapted only after creation rather than during the process. However, collaborations between media and disability advocacy groups have helped develop standards for adapting film content and increased awareness of the need for more inclusive programming on public media services. More work remains to be done to ensure coordinated and equal accessibility across all types of media.
While some positive progress is being made towards increasing accessibility of media content for those with disabilities, full accessibility still depends largely on the "good will" of individuals and organizations rather than strict enforcement of laws and standards. Guidelines for accessibility are not fully binding, and content is often adapted only after creation rather than during the process. However, collaborations between media and disability advocacy groups have helped develop standards for adapting film content and increased awareness of the need for more inclusive programming on public media services. More work remains to be done to ensure coordinated and equal accessibility across all types of media.
While some positive progress is being made towards increasing accessibility of media content for those with disabilities, full accessibility still depends largely on the "good will" of individuals and organizations rather than strict enforcement of laws and standards. Guidelines for accessibility are not fully binding, and content is often adapted only after creation rather than during the process. However, collaborations between media and disability advocacy groups have helped develop standards for adapting film content and increased awareness of the need for more inclusive programming on public media services. More work remains to be done to ensure coordinated and equal accessibility across all types of media.
... Although these examples of positive practice are slowly pushing
the boundaries of domestic possibilities of the media, in the words of Bruno Tot "; in our country it is still very slow and on a small scale", and that for several reasons. First of all, it is important to draw attention to the still insufficient familiarity with the very problem of adjustment, as well as the lack of understanding of "what, how and then neither why adapt [program] "- problems that are already in 2016 at the round table in as part of the Human Rights Film Festival mentioned Mirjana Juriša, President of the Society interpreter and translator of sign language for the deaf and Marica Mirić, activist and representative Community of the Association of Persons with Disabilities. Another problem concerns legislation, respectively defining accessibility standards and law enforcement. Although in the Republic of Croatia passed a law on mandatory accessibility of media content on public services, as already the previously mentioned agreement between HRT and associations of persons with sensory difficulties, there is also the so - called "Accessibility Statement" which network content owners publish as would clearly define what accessibility is about and what is still being worked on. The trap of the document is that it actually, as Toth explains, “deprives the media owner of any responsibilities and consequences in case of inaccessibility of the program under the pretext of being on it yet works "...... It is important to note that not all guidelines and directives are strictly binding on individuals, companies and institutions and they are still being implemented thanks to someone's "good will" and mostly after and not during content creation which significantly complicates and slows down the overall program adjustment process ....... Although we are still far from fully adapting and making audio-visual accessible content to people with visual impairments, positive changes are very visible, which we confirmed by our interlocutors. Thanks to all the previously mentioned collaborations and approved projects, the media community began to develop adequate standards for adaptation of film content, and more importantly, there is a growing awareness of the need to increase the percentage of inclusive programs on the public media service. Places for progress is progressing, as uncoordinated and unequal accessibility to all species media content, as well as cultural and entertainment, is exceptional discriminatory practices that have no place in the 21st century, when all possibilities are adaptable very much made possible by technological advances.