DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, September 15, 2016
-- surprise captioning problem
Jeffrey Liebman, who is deaf, was angry when he
requested captioning device at a Montreal movie
theater to watch the "Star Trek Into Darkness"
movie. Yet the theater would not give him
the device even though the movie was captioned.
They said it was not fair because the film
was captioned in English, but not in French.
They wanted to be fair to English-language
deaf and French-language deaf. It happened
in 2013 and a complaint was filed with the
Quebec Human Rights Commission. Just
this week the Commission said they would
not help him argue the case with the
Quebec Human Rights Tribunal. A picture
is at:
http://35.182.75.222/deaf-man-refused-captioning-device/
-- court says no to video
In Toronto, a deaf British woman rented a car
and got into an accident with a hearing driver,
that also rented a car. It happened in 2012.
The deaf driver sued the hearing driver and the
car rental company. Four years later, a big
arrgument is continuing. Whose fault was the
accident - the deaf or the hearing? The deaf
woman from London wanted more answers from
the hearing driver through video (London-Toronto).
The hearing driver refused the video and
wanted in-person responses. The judge
said videos not permitted. At this point,
no one knows what to do next.
-- a new way with TV commercials
We hate TV commercials. Some commercials
are captioned. Some are not. But what about
commercials fully in sign language? Never
saw one in USA, but it is coming up in
Great Britain. On the TV program "The
Last Leg" one commercial break will
feature a deaf actor using British
Sign Language for all of these ads
during that time. Which commercial
break would that be? Deaf British
viewers would be forced to wait
through all commercial breaks until
the one comes up that is 100 percent
British Sign Language!
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