ITV1, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, Men & Motors, CITV provide a selection of programmes open signed in British Sign Language. ITV1 provides roughly seven hours of signed programmes in regular night-time throughout the week, and the digital channels will deliver between 1% and 3% of signed programmes in 2008.
Signpost
All ITV’s pre-recorded British Sign Language (BSL) is provided by SignPost, ITV’s centre of excellence for on-screen sign language access. Based in the North-East of England, SignPost employs a team of professional on-screen and studio staff whose native language is BSL – offering top-quality access to the deaf community.
SignPost’s award-winning website was the UK’s first bilingual English-BSL website - www.signpostbsl.com - where visitors can access details of signed TV programmes shown on ITV and other channels, news and information about deaf issues, learn a BSL sign a day, see signed news and find out how signing is put on to TV.