Why The Sign Language Person At Every Government Press Conference?

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Czar

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Don't most deaf folk have closed captioning on their tv? Every TV I own has it. No need for the sign language interpreter.



FCC rules for TV closed captioning ensure that viewers who are deaf and hard of hearing have full access to programming, address captioning quality and provide guidance to video programming distributors and programmers. The rules apply to all television programming with captions...
 
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It's for any deaf people watching in the audience, right? Dunno, I suspect at this point it's just a thing nobody knows why, they just do it.
 
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vraiblonde said:
It's for any deaf people watching in the audience, right? Dunno, I suspect at this point it's just a thing nobody knows why, they just do it.
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If it's for the audience, there is no need to keep the camera on the signer. The TV station captions the whole thing.

I think my TV can caption 5 ways or more if you include the cable company captions.
 
black dog

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Ha Gregg just said the same thing about the sign guy - why is he there?
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For the crowd thats there, you see then at other venues like comedy shows, speaking tours and so on.
When ADA kicked in we had to change every elevator car panel and hallway push buttons to a lower measurement for the new laws.
It took years to do these mandatory changes, a huge boom to that industry.
In all of my years working on elevators I have actually seen 2 blind people ride on elevators.
We were doing a high rise in Baltimore and a blind man walked on an elevator that we had just finished doing the ADA changes on, and as he was running his hand over the new brail buttons that were now in different positions he talked to himself, and said WTF has happened here.
Not a happy customer with Otis Elevator.
 
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Czar said:
Don't most deaf folk have closed captioning on their tv? Every TV I own has it. No need for the sign language interpreter.



FCC rules for TV closed captioning ensure that viewers who are deaf and hard of hearing have full access to programming, address captioning quality and provide guidance to video programming distributors and programmers. The rules apply to all television programming with captions...
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Probably an ADA requirement.
 
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black dog said:
For the crowd thats there, you see then at other venues like comedy shows, speaking tours and so on.
When ADA kicked in we had to change every elevator car panel and hallway push buttons to a lower measurement for the new laws.
It took years to do these mandatory changes, a huge boom to that industry.
In all of my years working on elevators I have actually seen 2 blind people ride on elevators.
We were doing a high rise in Baltimore and a blind man walked on an elevator that we had just finished doing the ADA changes on, and as he was running his hand over the new brail buttons that were now in different positions he talked to himself, and said WTF has happened here.
Not a happy customer with Otis Elevator.
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I’m still not sure why the Braille on the drive through ATM’s though.
 
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