Stagetext explains Colchester Castle tour redesign case study with ambassador testimony during Deaf Awareness Week webinar.
Join Stagetext for a free webinar as part of Deaf Awareness Week, exploring how museums and heritage venues can reach more visitors by making events accessible to deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audiences.
Eighteen million adults in the UK are deaf, deafened or hard of hearing. That means that in any group where there are three or four people, such as a family, a school trip, or a tour group, there’s a good chance at least one of them has some form of deafness, and you might not even know.
For those 1 in 3, guided tours, talks and live events at museums and galleries are still out of reach. That means 1 in 3 of your potential visitors can’t engage fully with what you have to offer. This webinar looks at why that happens, what good access looks like, and how live subtitling can change that.
In this hour-long webinar we’ll hear from a Stagetext ambassador about what it’s like to access museum and gallery events as a deaf person. And we’ll take you through a real example of how Colchester Castle not only introduced live subtitles to their tours but redesigned them to be accessible.
The webinar will be live subtitled and BSL interpreted.
