DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 10, 2015
-- sports and captions
You follow your favorite sports team on the web and at the
stadium. Are you getting your captions? Many sports teams
do not provide 100 percent captions. You want to know
what the players are saying about the game they just
played - but it is useless if their comments are not
captioned. The Portland Trail Blazers (NBA - basketball)
won many praises for making "everything" captioned for
their deaf fans. You name it, and it is captioned.
-- cell phone frustrations
In some European and Asian nations (examples - Sweden
and Japan), deaf people can send videos to each other.
Not always that way in USA. Efforts to send full
videos are often blocked or slowed down by some
telephone companies and some internet service
providers. Is there a way around to fix the
slow American problem? A group of engineers from
University of Washington is looking for a better
way.
-- confessions of hearing Survivor participants
Deaf Survivor participant Nina Poersch was
popular with the audience but not popular with the
Survivor participants. One said it was a surprise
that Nina got emotional over "nothing" when she
wasn't invited to go swimming with them. They
didn't invite her, uncomfortable with her deafness,
her unfriendly behavior and the big age difference.
Another one said voting her out was a mistake because
they were stuck with a man, that they all didn't like.
Another one was sorry for giving Nina a dirty look.
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