Introduce subtitles in public environments, such as concerts & sports events

Rejected 16 signatures

What the petition asks

Implement subtitles in public situations, such as cinemas & theatres who can use technologies like subtitling apps aimed towards hearing-impaired individuals. Concerts and sporting events can have screens displaying live-captioned text alongside the program to ensure everyone is included.

As someone with a hearing impairment, I find myself constantly facing challenges in public spaces. Venues like cinemas, concert venues, theatres, and sports events are inherently reliant on audio, which poses a barrier for myself and the deaf and hard of hearing community. Without subtitles, the dialogue in films, announcements during sports events, and song lyrics at concerts become inaccessible, cutting us off from the full experience that everyone else enjoys.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.

Decisions about the use of subtitles in entertainment venues are a matter for individual businesses, not the UK Government or Parliament. If you'd like the Government or Parliament to set new requirements for venues about the use of subtitles, you could start a new petition clearly setting out what you'd like those requirements to be.

Timeline

17 Sep 2025	Petition opened for signatures
3 Oct 2025	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 16

Status Rejected

Rejected 3 Oct 2025

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