DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, May 22, 2015 morning
-- quickly given interpreters
When Gary Malkowski, the ASL-signing Canadian, won the
election in 1990 for a seat in the Ontario Parliament,
the first law that was passed was to quickly give him
interpreters. When Mojo Mathers, a signing New Zealander
won a seat in her nation's parliament in 2011, her
fellow legislators REFUSED to give her interpreters.
She had to fight tooth and nail to get the interpreters.
Now - in Japan, Yanetani Atsuko, who uses sign language,
was quickly given interpreters when she recently won a seat in
Japanese assembly. Canada, Japan, New Zealand - different
attitudes!
-- more on Yahoo captions
More about Yahoo captions - they said over thousands
of videos will be captioned every month. Movie
trailers? Yes, will be captioned. Community, Other Space,
Sin City Saints, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, tech reports,
Trending Now, TV in No Time, etc - yes, all captioned.
One question that remains unanswered - good or bad
captions? We will eventually find out.
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