What if every person who was deaf, Deaf, had hearing loss (plus those peoples’ friends and family) refused to do business with a company that didn’t caption its videos? I saw an article recently, which identified strategies that business people who don’t want to caption videos should use to try and avoid it. Basically, it advocated strategies for business people to deliberately choose which allows them to discriminate against people with hearing loss if they don’t feel like paying for captioning. I’m not going to link to it or mention the author’s name because he doesn’t deserve the attention. But this article made me mad. Really really mad. Full-on “Mama bear, go off the deep-end” mad. Because my daughter is deaf, and when you don’t caption, you are hurting my child.
Captioning: It’s Time for a Revolt
Captioning: It’s Time for a Revolt
Captioning: It’s Time for a Revolt
What if every person who was deaf, Deaf, had hearing loss (plus those peoples’ friends and family) refused to do business with a company that didn’t caption its videos? I saw an article recently, which identified strategies that business people who don’t want to caption videos should use to try and avoid it. Basically, it advocated strategies for business people to deliberately choose which allows them to discriminate against people with hearing loss if they don’t feel like paying for captioning. I’m not going to link to it or mention the author’s name because he doesn’t deserve the attention. But this article made me mad. Really really mad. Full-on “Mama bear, go off the deep-end” mad. Because my daughter is deaf, and when you don’t caption, you are hurting my child.