Samsung Electronics has been recognized for its efforts to ease impediments of visually impaired viewers.

The electronics firm said Thursday that it received the Inclusive Society Award from the U.K.’s Royal National Institute of Blind People(RNIB).

RNIB Managing Director Neil Heslop said the Samsung smart television had the accessibility needed to allow blind and partially sighted people to use television sets and that the RNIB’s award to Samsung was due to the company's continued efforts to research and develop televisions for all.

Samsung said on Thursday that in developing its smart televisions, it had tried to ease the usual impediments preventing visually impaired people from accessing television.

Samsung’s smart televisions feature voice services reading aloud information about television programs to blind and partially sighted users. The TVs also feature white letters on black backgrounds to allow visually impaired viewers to more readily read letters on the screens.

The firm also incorporated the opinions of the RNIB and other international groups on the discomforts visually impaired people experience when watching television.