Gloucestershire County Council has produced the video to help achieve the legal responsibilities placed on it by recent legislation.  The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 requires local authorities to 'warn and inform' residents about emergency planning, while the Disability Equality Duty 2006 requires public bodies to look for ways to ensure that disabled people are treated equally. 

The video is produced by EqualSign using low cost translation technology from EyeGaze.  “Public bodies are quickly grasping that video sign language translations are a simple and quick way of informing their deaf BSL audiences and meeting their responsibilities under the new disability and equality regulations,” explained Mick Canavan, Managing Director of EyeGaze.

“I'm sure there are many public information announcements that I miss out on but which my hearing friends have access to,” said Vivian Jones, a Gloucester teenager who is deaf and uses BSL as his preferred language. “The EqualSign video is a terrific way for us to receive information and I think the Gloucestershire initiative is fantastic. I hope other organisations in Gloucestershire and elsewhere will make BSL clips for sign language users.”

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