DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, January 20, 2017
-- cheap or expensive captions
A town decided to caption its town hall meetings.
This town asked for bids. The most expensive bid
was $190 per hour. The cheapest bid was $89.95
per hour. This lowest bid won the contract.
Good or bad? Expensive captions may show the
best quality; cheap captions may show too
many errors. Worth to make deaf people
unhappy just to save few tax dollars?
A picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/captioning-a-townhall-meeting/
-- confessions of a deaf teacher that functions as hearing
A deaf teacher, in a hearing classroom, depends on his
hearing aid to "function" as a hearing person. He said
handling the classroom is not easy and is challenging -
always problems understanding some students, accidentally
walking away when a student is trying to say something,
always dealing with noise and always misunderstanding
what the student is trying to say!
-- surviving a bad railroad system
A deaf person rides the train to work every day.
This railroad system is bad - no displays,
no public announcements, no explanation for
delays and emergencies or track changes, etc.
A hearing rider can ask around to get as much
information as possible. Not always with that
deaf person. How does the deaf person survive?
He rides the same train at same time every day
and pretty much knows the faces of the hearing
riders that get off at the same stations. When
there are problems, this deaf person "follows"
the hearing riders without them aware of
being watched by a deaf "eye"!
Latest deaf jobs & also opportunity with Deaflympiccs
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Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- state printer
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
1/15/17 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
