About Access Communication

The company's Creative Director Andy Baker has been making business television for over twenty years. In that time he has worked with some of the country's biggest companies, such as ASDA, Bass Brewers, The HBOS banking group, and BT producing and directing over a thousand programmes.

He made his first programme specifically for a deaf audience in 1989 and being congenitally deaf in one ear himself, has since taken a keen interest in this specialist area of programme making. This experience of deaf communication issues, gained throughout his career, was the basis for the company's foundation. Since forming Access Communication he has taken his interest further and gained an NVQ qualification in BSL himself.

Access Communication retains close links with an experienced team of fully-qualified, on-screen broadcast BSL interpreters. One particularly close association is M2ACE a BSL tution and Deaf Awareness and Equality training company.

We have produced BSL translations of existing spoken English programmes for organisations such as The Benefits Agency; bespoke BSL research programmes for Local Government departments and clinical materials for the NHS; Deaf conference recordings for Leeds Health Action and several public information programmes for The Leeds Centre for the Blind and Deaf as well as website video modules for Mind, and Local Authorities.