DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, September 18, 2013
-- "Single" mother getting $147,000 for having "deaf" children
Cheryl Henwood, not deaf, fooled the British government into
getting £92,000 in British pounds ($147,000 in USA dollars)
in disability benefits for seven years. She told the government
that two of her children were deaf and that she was a single
mother. She spent the money on travel and expensive gifts
before she was caught and arrested. She is now sentenced to
one year in jail for welfare fraud. The children were not deaf,
and she was married for many years and was never single.
-- a sign language car for deaf drivers?
A sign language car for deaf (and hearing) drivers?
An engineering software company named IHS Automotive
says that future cars will have screens that will
follow commands in sign language and in gestures.
Someone was afraid that if a deaf driver is
signing to a deaf friend riding in the car, then
the screen will "misunderstand" the signing for
some command on the screen - and may lead to
accidents!
-- the Netflix and our captions
Yes, we know that Netflix has promised to caption all
of their videos by 2014 - but - just be careful about it.
Netflix looks at the video pirate web sites to see which
pirated videos are popular. If a video is not popular in
the pirate sites then Netflix won't pick that video
and therefore it won't be captioned!
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