Delaware Association of the Deaf (DAD)

Activists are expressing concerns about the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) push to adopt a new phone system for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, saying the services may not meet their needs and are potentially biased.

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), qualifying deaf or hard of hearing people have access to the Internet Protocol Captioned Telephone Service (IP CTS), which provides transcription for phone calls, similar to television closed captions, through a combination of technology and human interpreters.

Read more at https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/policy/technology/462810-deaf-activists-warn-against-fcc-proposal-to-automate-phone-captioning%3famp.

Note: this would apply to IP relay, Captel and similar relay services. Basically the same that we see on emergency and news shows with bad captioning as no one is there to correct it anymore.

Broadcast and cable operators have asked the FCC for a little more time to comment on a request that the FCC develop “objective, technology-neutral metrics” for the quality of live closed captions.

Read on at https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/broadcast-cable-seek-fcc-extension-of-closed-captioning-comments.

We saw in Unusualverse that the video game has been one of the last conquests of Sign Language. Now, from the industry’s point of view, Deaf people are also rampaging as professional gamers and streamers. This is EwOk, a Deaf gamer and online streamer with so much talent that people want to learn Sign Language to communicate with her.

Read the rest of the story at https://www.unusualverse.com/2019/09/ewok-videogame-deaf-fornite.html?m=1.