Audio Accessibility

Hello! A Person is Calling You Through Relay…

audio_net — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 01:00:12 +0000

“…This is a relay operator X. Have you received a relay call before?” When people not familiar with deafness hears those words, they often hang up thinking it is telemarketing. It is not – phone relay services is what deaf/hoh people use to communicate with hearing parties. Video – (NJ Relay “Don’t Hang Up” Video) [...]

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Is Hearing Device a Magic Wand?

Sveta — Tue, 07 May 2013 00:55:06 +0000

When looking at people using hearing devices (hearing aids and cochlear implants), don’t assume that they can hear and understand everything. It’s not like wearing eyeglasses that gives you 20/20 vision – even eyeglasses are not beneficial to people who are blind or have some severe eye sight problems. Just being able to hear is [...]

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Bullying Inside the Deaf/HOH Community

Sveta — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:40:47 +0000

Shanna Groves, the deaf author and speaker, has been writing a lot about stopping hearing loss bullying. Many of us deaf/hoh people have experienced bullying by hearing people, and most of it is usually done due to ignorance. What bothers me most is bullying INSIDE the deaf/hoh community. It’s hard enough for us deaf/hoh people [...]

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Why is Open Captioning the Best Solution for Movie Theaters?

Sveta — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:52:42 +0000

I am writing a follow up to my article, Fire Alarm to Protest Against a Captioned Movie? – where I mentioned about a 30-something man pulling fire alarm to protest against the open-captioned Avengers at a movie theater in Maryland last year. Also, there were complaints from hearing Brits complaining last year about The Artist [...]

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Can You Lipread?

Sveta — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:13:37 +0000

It’s the first and the most favorite question hearing people would ask deaf people – even after some deaf people ask them to write down or type what they say. However, it’s one of the MAJOR pet peeves of many deaf/hoh people when it comes to communicating with hearing people. This question gives the impression [...]

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