DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 17, 2015
-- personal contacts better than advocating
A deaf businessman, who does a lot of business with
a national mail order store, is not happy. The store
has DVD videos that are not captioned. He is
planning to visit the store management to explain
the importance of captions on their videos.
The store has to listen because he will take his
business elsewhere if they won't caption. This
warning is more powerful than just advocating
because the store does not want to lose the
deaf man's business. Said the deaf businessman:
The diplomacy is the key
-- a shocking police department silence
Bradford is a small city of just 8,300 people in
Pennsylvania. The city police officers stopped
a deaf driver after a traffic stop and brutally
beat him up, knocking out his CI. The grandfather,
who was riding with him, is angry about it and
is planning a lawsuit. He confronted the police
chief and asked him a simple question:
Does your department have training on how to deal
with the deaf?
The chief said yes, but refused to explain the
procedures! This is shocking, especially from
the chief.
-- ADA does not cover one very important issue
The ADA has many pages in its book of regulations,
covering five different categories. One very
important issue is not covered in ADA and which
is why we have so many lawsuits. It is captions
on the internet - meaning captioned videos.
Why not? ADA became law in 1990 - years before
the internet become common and again years
before video captions came up.
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