I’m deaf and use the internet instead of watching TV. My time management is important to me, and the internet gives me more flexibility on what information to access than does TV.

However, clicking on a news item only to have it come up a video that is uncaptioned is very discouraging and impedes my access. It also puts me at a disadvantage where access to information, tutorials and news is restricted compared to the access of my coworkers and friends.

Go for it! Increase accessibility for the deaf not only increases it for everybody else, it also increases the flexibility of its use for all.

However, there are vary group for deaf that who can hear or not with special accessories to meet their need. I’m just someone who cannot understand word. BTW, it was brief nice to meet you! I figure that you either love or from Seattle that I wore it on the first day in early time!

Of course one of my pet hates is to be offered a phone number (and no alternative way of getting in touch) by a support team – it’s not something you would find in a blog, but some commercial sites do it. I don’t use phones, and I don’t see why I should have to ask my friends and family to phone for me.

I admit that a couple of vidoes on my speaking website does not have captioning and I’m trying to get my website designer to figure out a way to add text to it.

Good awareness-raising post!

A side effect is that as my wife and I go out to review shows, more and more we are having people say that they recognize our voices from the podcast, but just as many people that say they aren’t allowed to download MP3s from work, so they simply read our articles. Having both text and audio is the best of both worlds.