# Did the BBC Trust's 2016 decision rule on red/green football kits, and what did the decision text actually decide?

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The decision text found in the BBC Trust's Complaints and Appeals Board bulletin (June 2016, issued July 2016) is about BBC General Election 2015 graphics, not football kits. It partly upheld a Colour Blind Awareness appeal (6 of 7 points, by the complainant's count and consistent with the point-by-point findings), said people with colour vision deficiency are a significant minority audience, and asked the BBC to review its CVD guidance across broadcast and online. No part of the 16-page bulletin text mentions football, kits or sport; the football references found are in the complainant's press release (BBC Football Table web page; a separate kit-clash campaign).

The decision text found in the BBC Trust's Complaints and Appeals Board bulletin (June 2016, issued July 2016) is about BBC General Election 2015 graphics, not football kits. It partly upheld a Colour Blind Awareness appeal (6 of 7 points, by the complainant's count and consistent with the point-by-point findings), said people with colour vision deficiency are a significant minority audience, and asked the BBC to review its CVD guidance across broadcast and online. No part of the 16-page bulletin text mentions football, kits or sport; the football references found are in the complainant's press release (BBC Football Table web page; a separate kit-clash campaign).

Curator qualifications: All excerpts located; the BBC Trust CAB June 2016 decision concerns General Election 2015 graphics, not football kits ('There are no editorial guidelines applicable'; CVD audience a significant minority; BBC asked to review its CVD guidance). '6 of 7 points' is the complainant's count, consistent with the findings.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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      "url": "https://www.colourblindawareness.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/BBC-Trust-finds-in-favour-of-colour-blind-viewers-contact-details-amended.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
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Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] The decision text found in the BBC Trust's Complaints and Appeals Board bulletin (June 2016, issued July 2016) is about BBC General Election 2015 graphics, not football kits. It partly upheld a Colour Blind Awareness appeal (6 of 7 points, by the complainant's count and consistent with the point-by-point findings), said people with colour vision deficiency are a significant minority audience, and asked the BBC to review its CVD guidance across broadcast and online. No part of the 16-page bulletin text mentions football, kits or sport; the football references found are in the complainant's press release (BBC Football Table web page; a separate kit-clash campaign). · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/appeals/cab/june_2016.pdf

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