Technology and Accessibility

Foundation for Access

Architectural Barriers Acts 1968

Rehabilitation Act

Education for all Handicapped Children Act

Americans with Disability Act

Deaf Community Access

2013 deaf and hard or hearing truck drivers were finally allowed to obtain commercial driver's' licenses

2014 PNU was ordered to allow Deaf medical students

2015 girls scouts local chapter was ordered to provide ASL interpreters for Girl Scouts troop meeting

2017 the department of justice issued regulations requiring movie theaters to provide closed captioning .

Deaf people were not being informed about the COVID-19 breakout

Captions

were first a seperate box

then they were a TV option but you had to pay extra for them.

Decoder Circuitry Act of 1990 saying all television showing 13 episodes or bigger had have closed captions.

Closed captions vs open captions

Issues with the closed captioning devices that were supplied at movie theaters

Telephone

For a long time Deaf people had to rely on hearing people in order to make a phone call.

They then upgraded to a Teletypewriter, very large machine that was connected by the phone and the message was transcribed

The TTY was then upgraded to a smaller version but the problem stil persisted that deaf people couldn't call hearing people and hearing people would rarely use their TTY

VRS was a major success and made lots of money