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Its actually a form of discrimination that is against the law, its just so few people bother picking up on it here. In the US there are 5 new lawsuits a day..
chrisbmx116-
The US is already ahead of subtitles in cinema nowadays, our is basically breaking the Equity Act of 2010 due to just offering subtitles are a weird time of days and hours (says 10am on a Monday, or 3pm on a Wednesday).
Moreso having to look and find a cinema within a 10 miles radius in London that offer the following;
Subtitles
Film I want to watch
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its just so few people bother picking up on it here
It's not that disabled people can't be bothered, it's that disabled people can't afford the financial and time/energy outlay. Class action lawsuits don't work in the UK the way they do in the US (they're harder to bring, for a start), and they're also fairly new in the UK as we didn't have the legal apparatus until recently. The UK's first class action lawsuit was only brought a couple of years ago and they're still pretty rare. Ed Scoble Himself Personally Now vs The Internet isn't really a financially or existentially viable option.
Most disability activism in the UK happens on social media for exactly this reason - putting pressure on companies via Twitter is the only kind of activism that most of us can realistically afford. It chafes a bit to have abled people wondering why we don't just get on and do more :-)
edscoble
bothwell
A lots of people/company rarely put effort in it because they never needed to do so due to their own privilege.
It's always down to a handful few that push it forwards.