Petition · past parliament · Department for Work and Pensions
Make Subtitles/ Captions a legal requirement for online training & education
Closed
167 signatures
What the petition asks
The advent of AI has made the provision of subtitles and live captions cheap and easy to implement. It should be made a legal requirement for training/ education providers to provide them. Essentially it facilitates access to opportunities to the sizeable populous who are hard of hearing/ deaf.
Socially inclusive and addresses disability discrimination in the education sector. UK Statistics:
1) 12 million adults with hearing loss greater than 25 dBHL. By 2035, there’ll be around 14.2 million adults with hearing loss greater than 25 dBHL
2) 50,000 deaf children
3) An estimated 1.2 million people have hearing loss greater than 65 dBHL.
4) Hearing research is significantly underfunded. Less than 1% of the total public and charity investment in medical research (83p spent for every person affected) in 2018
1) 12 million adults with hearing loss greater than 25 dBHL. By 2035, there’ll be around 14.2 million adults with hearing loss greater than 25 dBHL
2) 50,000 deaf children
3) An estimated 1.2 million people have hearing loss greater than 65 dBHL.
4) Hearing research is significantly underfunded. Less than 1% of the total public and charity investment in medical research (83p spent for every person affected) in 2018
Timeline
| 7 May 2021 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 7 Nov 2021 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
167
Status
Closed
Department
Department for Work and Pensions
Opened
7 May 2021
Closed
7 Nov 2021
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.