According to the National Health Survey conducted in 2021 in Australia, 33.2 percent of the population aged 65 years and older had complete or partial deafness. Overall, 8.7 percent of the total population were completely or partially blind.

According to a survey on the representation of the Deaf community in media and entertainment, conducted in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia in September 2022, Deaf consumers of live theatre, comedy and live music are most likely to encounter accessibility barriers there, as 58 percent of respondents stated that they are always or at least frequently confronted with barriers when attending such events. Video streaming from home and social media content are the most accessible types of media consumption, according to Deaf audiences. However, 44 percent of respondents still encounter problems on a regular basis, when consuming these types of media.

According to a survey on the representation of the Deaf community in media and entertainment, conducted in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia in September 2022, 43 percent of Deaf consumers responded that they frequently saw their identity represented in social media. Ranked closely behind are TV shows, books and movies with a share of 42 percent of respondents.

Digital video recordings of 100 deaf people filmed in pairs, performing language tasks (such as personal story-telling, re-tellings of written texts or signed texts, responding to elicitation materials such as pictures, movies, and interviewer questions, and engaging in free conversation). A sub-set of language task clips have time aligned translations and linguistic annotations (glossing, parts of speech, clause boundaries, non-manual features, etc.).NB: record redirects to the Language Data Commons of Australia, which contains further information on how to access this collection.

A survey on the representation of the Deaf community in media and entertainment, conducted in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia in September 2022, found that ** percent of Deaf audiences felt that their representation in television and film had improved during the previous year. Among hearing audiences, this share stood at ** percent. In addition, the share of consumers responding that the representation of the Deaf community had improved a lot is considerably higher among Deaf audiences.