NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA Submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – July 2022 22-3 Public information in accessible and easy-to-read methods □ Current status and problems ㅇ Recently, there have been calls to guarantee the right to access information of persons with developmental disabilities who have been excluded from society at large and provision of easy-to-read information based on the Disability Discrimination Prohibition Act. ㅇ In the case of broadcasting, the Korea Communications Commission has made a total of 106 videos so far, starting from 25 videos for persons with developmental disabilities in 2014, and the National Library for the Disabled also has a total of 108 easy-to-read material. However, there are few other data for persons with developmental disabilities that are regularly produced by public institutions. ㅇ Moreover, support for access through braille and sign language for documents of public institutions has not even been discussed, and thus it is urgent to prepare a method to guarantee the right to access public information of persons with visual and hearing disabilities including those with developmental disabilities. □Recommendations ㅇ To guarantee the right to access public information of persons with developmental disabilities as well as persons with visual and hearing disabilities, standards on accessible format, production and provision have to be devised and policy measures should be prepared to provide public information in an easy-to-read manner. 40