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Well, that doesn't make any sense. It would be very easy for the interpreter to be in a different room, if that was necessary to keep them safe, and to sign from there, with the image inset for people viewing via the Internet or TV, and displayed on monitors for people actually in the room. It would be a perfectly easy adjustment to normal procedure. I'm aware there are still people who don't consider it 'normal' for sign language interpreters to be present in situations like that. It's slowly changed over the years, e.g. you'll generally see them in Germany at regional or national press conferences, although TV broadcasting mostly still doesn't show them. (I suspect that there are other ways of adding them to the way a broadcast is displayed in Germany, as it's all digital TV now, but I haven't looked into how it's done.) It's odd as British disability legislation was way ahead of Europe in the 90s. I think they've caught up with, and have quite possibly overtaken, the UK.
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Oliver Schick
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The government already respond last week that they won’t be providing an interpreter.