To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the merits of providing British Sign Language (BSL) videos on his departmental website for the benefit of those whose first language is BSL. (142491)

[holding answer 13 June 2007]: The Department is continually seeking to improve and enhance its web content. MOD is currently considering the report of an accessibility assessment of www.mod.uk against the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. The guidelines do not require BSL videos, but the feasibility of providing them on the departmental website will be assessed.