September is #DeafAwarenessMonth! Some of you may know that I'm hard of hearing, and while I don't consider myself culturally deaf, hearing access and inclusion are personally meaningful and impactful to me every day. Wishing everyone a happy DAM! https://nationaldeafcenter.org/resources/deaf-awareness/
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Wow, it is September already - where has the time gone? However, there are a few notable occasions in September, and one of them is Deaf Awareness Month. If you're interested in reading more about Deaf issues, Deaf-related topics, and related matters, I've included an article I wrote in September 2019. Beware that this article is lengthy, but it's packed with a wealth of information on Deaf-related topics.
https://www.joshiesworld.com/international-deaf-awareness-month/
#Deaf #DeafCommunity #DeafandHardofHearing #DeafAwarenessMonth
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It's the last day of #DeafAwarenessMonth and my friend (and colleague in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Deaf and Hard of Hearing working group) Jon Zeolla has a wonderful, thoughtful, helpful post over here:
One of the things he said is worth emphasizing:
"Offer multiple options for accommodations like live captions and interpreters"
Why?
I try to turn on automatic captions whenever I give a talk. It's pretty easy - Ctrl-Shift-C in Google Slides, or just "J" in Office365. But it's not infallable.
Recently I gave a talk at PyOhio. They are amazing folks who run a great event. What you see in this video is not their fault. It's merely proof that there's no one-size-fits-all accommodation.
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I just finished my talk at #SREDay and got a lot of wonderful feedback. But by far my favorite was:
"Thank you for turning on captioning."
#DeafAwarenessMonth is NOW!
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September is #DeafAwarenessMonth so I'd like to remind any videomakers out there to caption! your! work!
Rikki Poynter has a video about how exactly you can do that, and it's a couple years old but still relevant: https://youtu.be/7t-1kFDPceo