DeafDigest Mid-Week edition - April 3, 2017
-- a twist with the Pepsi Center captioning lawsuit
The lawsuit, trying to force Denver's Pepsi Center
to caption their video board, has a twist! The
plaintiffs are asking for interpreters if there
are no captions. Not sure how is this going
to work? Not every deaf person knows ASL;
what if the deaf person is seated too far
from the interpreter's stand? A picture
is at:
http://deafdigest.com/pepsi-center-funny-captions/
-- coming up, next ADA war
The ADA war never stops. There are always a new
set of violations that keeps the war continuing.
Coming up is captions on web sites. The results
could be ugly - witness University of California
taking down its videos just to avoid the high
captioning costs. Take as an example, the
web site of your favorite sports team is
not captioned. Is this a violation of the ADA?
Deaf people say yes; web site owners say no.
-- confusing deafness with something else
When something does not look right with their
young children, the distraught parents may
think they may be deaf. Taking the child to
the doctor, they are told it is something
else (and serious) - autism! Deaf children
have problems communicating. Autistic children
may have same problems communicating. This
is why there is confusion. This is a problem
in some Asian nations that do not have newborn
hearing screening exams.
Latest deaf jobs
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- secrets of successful deaf entertainer
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
4/02/17 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
