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Chapter 9 - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 9
Accessibility & Captions
- Accessibility enables access for people with disabilities
- Accessibility can be a product, device, the environment, or services.
- Even with the ADA passing, everything still wasn't accessible. Discrimination of people with disabilities was still live and well.
- Universal Design is making something that is already accessible for everyone instead of adding accessible things later on.
- Activism from the deaf community allowed for more TV with captioning.
- The Television Decoder Circuitry Act of 1990, made it so all TV's above 13 Inches include a captioning device within itself.
- Sometimes captions don't always work or they are messed up/incorrect.
Devices & Emergency
- More and more TV emergency announcements include a certified deaf interpreter (CDI) on stage.
- There are systems and devices that help filter out reverberation and background noises.
- VRI (Video remote interpreting) is a computer or device that is connected to the internet and includes a webcam. It is used for interpreters and Dead individuals.
- ASR is automated speech recognition and it is an innovative technology that helps facilitate communication.
- Motion capture technology tracks lights worn by signers as they sign, using special cameras to capture and track signs.
- Augmented Reality (AR) platforms allows someone to use their mobile devices to hover across a photo, image, or object, and have a signer appear on screen narrating about the item.
History of Disability
- In the early 1800's the thought process of the American people was all about purification which means that they didn't want to see people with disabilities.
- People with disabilities were out into institutions and asylums. Some were also used as entertainment.
- Eugenics are the belief that the human population can be improved by having superior human breed. This means that anyone who was inferior would be removed or sterilized.
- In the 1960's a law was passed that requires facilities built by the government to be accessible.
- In 1990 the ADA was passed, ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) is a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability.
Technology
- The telephone was the most formidable, social, and cultural obstacle for Deaf people. It set the Deaf community back decades.
- Calling 911 is extremely difficult for Deaf people and they often need another person close by to make the call.
- The VRS is the Video Relay Service works by having a Deaf caller and a sign language interpreter going back a fourth and then the interpreter and hearing caller go back and fourth. This service was highly embraced by the sighted Deaf community immediately.
- Lots of technology an devices like doorbells and alarm clocks were used to help Deaf people with vibrations instead of the sound.
- Some security systems include lights and and offer texting options instead of calling.