“Learning by osmosis“ and listening to market updates/training sessions etc, is a great way to keep your market and legal knowledge up to date. For me learning/training needs to be deliberate, dedicated and often involves a lot of reading! As my role changes (and I continue to be busy) I…
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It is a new year and an opportunity to re-visit and review my new year’s resolutions. I felt like 2023 was a good year. This year I want to be more intentional. #1: Explore disability issues and culture. I am continuing to explore disability issues and educate myself. I once…
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So I’ve been reminding everyone for a while that if training is going to be video only, it needs to have subtitles and/or transcript. I have said this about all training, but trying to get a few wins it, I’ve put a lot of emphasis on making so called “mandatory…
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Deaf umbrella recently wrote an article entitled how to communicate with people who rely on lipreading. It is quick easy and simple – so I wanted to share it here.
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It seems that I have a black tie dinner or formal sit-down dinner every week from now until the end of the year. I’ve talked before about some of the issues around black tie dinners for people who are hard of hearing and/or lip read. However, today I wanted to…
Leave a CommentThere are all sorts of challenges when you lip-read. Many are physical barriers, but often lighting can be a real problem. It can be too bright, too dark, too many shadows, or the simply the light is going in the wrong direction. (I’m starting to feel a little like goldilocks…
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So after the last cinema experience where no subtitles were available. I decided that this time that as it wasn’t an independent film and it was a mainstream movie with subtitles that I was going to ask for the subtitles to be included in the movie particularly as it was…
One CommentThere are all sorts of challenges when you lip-read. Many are physical barriers, but often lighting can be a real problem. One pet hate is where I am sitting talking to someone and it is really bright behind them and therefore I can’t see them clearly enough to actually lip-read…
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Are you offering your staff/attendees/members access to the recordings of webinars and events? Have you checked if your recordings are accessible? You should offer either subtitles/closed captions on all your recordings (and although automated captions are terrible, I’d rather have automated captions than nothing at all) or a transcript (or…
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Subtitles can be difficult when it comes to comedy. Subtitles are often not available and if they are available they are out of sync with what is being said. The challenge with subtitles and comedy is that comedy is often heavily reliant on wordplay, puns, and linguistic humor. Additionally, comedy…
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