Another year is coming to an end. I wanted to share some highlights of this year.
2017 marks the 200th anniversary of American Sign Language as well as foundation of American School for the Deaf, the first school for the deaf in USA, and New York School for the Deaf. You can learn more about ASL history.
A list of articles I wrote for Audio Accessibility in 2017:
- How to make your events accessible to deaf and hard of hearing attendees
- How to add good quality captions to videos in YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook
- Are speech technologies and AI replacements to human captioners?
- You’d rather read those [captions] than hear me?
- What a [bleep] – How to caption expletives?
- Wonder Woman movie experience not wonderful for a deaf theatergoer
- Dr. Robert Davila – a deaf role model
- Why no live captions during online emergency announcements?
- Deaf Awareness Month – Many different ways to enjoy life as a deaf person
- My London trip accessibility experience
You can also check out videos on Audio Accessibility Vimeo page.
Other highlights of the year included: Mandy Harvey (a profoundly deaf singer) winning America’s Got Talent, a deaf girl with hearing aids being featured in GAP Kids advertisement, transparent masks for deaf patients and medical professionals, Wonderstruck movie featuring a deaf actress, two deaf men running for political positions, collaboration of Apple and Cochlear Corporation for iPhone compatible sound processor, a deaf woman participating in Xploration Station, Deaflympics in Samsun, Cochlear releasing a new off-ear processor Kanso, and many other news.
I also wrote new articles in Russian, did a survey on captioning access in Russia, and published the results. Sadly, captioning access in Russia still leaves a lot to be desired. They even plan to cut down captioning access on TV in 2018!
As the founder of Audio Accessibility, I provide consulting and training to organizations on how to make their aural information (podcasts, videos, events, aural announcements, and so on) accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people. I’m also an author of a book, Sound Is Not Enough.
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