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Jun 27, 2026
What If Event Accessibility Were The Default?
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Orla PearsonGUEST
I worked for the BBC for about 15 years developing live captioning for broadcasts.

Orla PearsonGUEST
And there was a huge investment by the BBC to try and push really high quality live captioning.

Orla PearsonGUEST
as a marker for other channels so that Channel 4 ITV would then all follow suit.

Catherine GrinyerGUEST
We know some of the organizations that are there in the UK that are delivering consistently accessible events or are on that journey towards, you know, learning to do to do more so there's some good practice out there there's a lot of inconsistencies and the idea behind the show was really to bring event professionals together to first of all understand that they need to do something and then help to share the knowledge and best practice of how and also provide the solutions for them to connect with specialist providers in the event accessibility space that can help them work through that journey Sean and Orla feel free to jump in I think
