COVID-19 Pandemic Boosts Visibility of Sign Language, Increases Accessibility for Deaf Community – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

January 26, 2021 / by BBG Security / Deaf, International

Sign language interpreters said that they hope increased use of interpreters during major events helps increase accessibility for the deaf community. Read more athttps://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/covid-19-pandemic-boosts-visibility-of-sign-language-increases-accessibility-for-deaf-community/ Related

Rights of woman who is deaf, blind breached by how student loan administered: Ontario court

October 27, 2020 / by BBG Security / Canada, Canada student loan program, Disabilities, Ontario, Ontario court, Ontario Superior Court, superior court

TORONTO — An Ontario court has ruled that the provincial and federal governments must operate their student loan program in a way that ensures those with disabilities who take longer to complete their studies are not saddled with more debt than their able-bodied peers. But Superior Court Justice Lorne Sossin says the Canada Student […]

Deaf Politician – The Gary Malkowski Story – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

September 28, 2020 / by BBG Security / Deaf, International

CWDO is pleased to present this webinar about Gary Malkowski’s life. The biography, Deaf Politician – The Gary Malkowski Story follows Gary from being born deaf into an immigrant, working-class family in Hamilton, Ontario through his education at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC to his community activism and political career in Toronto. Read more athttp://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/deaf-politician-the-gary-malkowski-story/ […]

Deaf Politician – The Gary Malkowski Story – Accessibility News International

September 28, 2020 / by BBG Security / Community

Deaf Citizens Petition – Accessibility News International

August 24, 2020 / by BBG Security / Community

Deaf Citizens are calling for change at the Canadian Hearing Services (formerly the Canadian Hearing Society). The petition is in ASL, LSQ, and English and it lays out some of the issues taking place in the organization. Concerns by deaf stakeholders and their allies include: Reducing the number of employees who are Deaf Failing to […]

Deaf Citizens Petition – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

August 24, 2020 / by BBG Security / Deaf, International

Deaf Citizens are calling for change at the Canadian Hearing Services (formerly the Canadian Hearing Society). The petition is in ASL, LSQ, and English and it lays out some of the issues taking place in the organization. Read more athttp://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/deaf-citizens-petition/ Related

YouTube Is Ending Its Community Captions Feature and Deaf Creators Aren’t Happy about it – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

August 10, 2020 / by BBG Security / Deaf, International

But deaf and hard-of-hearing creators say removing the community captions feature will stifle accessibility, and they want to see the company try to fix the issues with volunteer-created captions, rather than doing away with them entirely. Deaf YouTuber Rikki Poynter said on her channel in May that community captions were an “accessibility tool that not […]

YouTube Is Ending Its Community Captions Feature and Deaf Creators Aren’t Happy about it – Accessibility News International

August 10, 2020 / by BBG Security / Communications

The feature, which YouTube says was underutilized, will be discontinued in September By Kim Lyons Jul 31, 2020The Verge YouTube plans to discontinue its community captions feature, which allowed viewers to add subtitles to videos, because it was “rarely used and had problems with spam/abuse,” the company announced. It says it’s removing the captions and […]

Deaf Community Encounters New Challenges – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

July 9, 2020 / by BBG Security / Deaf, International

For the deaf and hard of hearing, COVID-19 adds extra challenges for communicating in public. We’ve all been told to avoid touching our face to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But for Thinaja Nadarajah, this public health advice is complicated. Nadarajah is deaf and American Sign Language is her first language. Read more […]

Deaf Community Encounters New Challenges – Accessibility News International

July 9, 2020 / by BBG Security / Communications

The now mandatory masks make lip reading, facial cues impossible Andrea YuToronto Star, July 9, 2020 For the deaf and hard of hearing, COVID-19 adds extra challenges for communicating in public. We’ve all been told to avoid touching our face to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But for Thinaja Nadarajah, this public health […]

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