Over the coming years, TAP will focus on people and pipelines in 2024, embedding its practices within industry partners the following year and will then go through a process of maintaining and monitoring progress before “celebrtating success” in 2030, according to todays plan. More details will be revealed tomorrow during a TAP session at the Edinburgh TV Festival, which is taking place this week.
Deadline revealed the launch of TAP last year including a blueprint to rid the sector of appalling accessibility problems. It was kicked off by BBC Chief Content Officer Charlotte Moore, one of the most powerful people in British broadcasting, who helped convene a pan-industry roundtable between disabled creatives, UK industry bosses and groups such as Pact, the CDN, Triple C DANC and DDPTV to discuss accessibility and the state of facilities.
TAP said today that it had delivered 20 “sustainable tangible solutions towards its vision of full inclusion for Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent talent by 2030.” This included a commitment from all TAP members to fund necessary access costs not covered by the Access to Work government scheme, more than 82 commissioning editors and senior leaders receiving training and the creation of a TAP Access Co-ordinator job overview and description.
“There are now tools and resources in place, and processes for organisations to make commitments and be accountable,” said Thorne, whose blistering Edinburgh TV Festival broadside in 2021 slammed the sector for
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