Re: Disibility Node as part of Ipodder.org categories ...
- From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:11:33 -0700
Hi Jennifer,
Excellent comments and right on! Most importantly, we should not, in any
way shape or form, put up any barriers to participation for the deaf,
hearing impaired or anyone else for that matter. Given all the artificially
imposed obstacles with which we must deal on a daily basis, we should all
know better...
Last week, Adam Curry simply distributed a short M4A containing a short
video suitable for playing on the new Video iPods, so we know it is already
being done.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Sutton" <jensutton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: Disibility Node as part of Ipodder.org categories ...
Hello to all who are trying to speculate on whether or not deaf people
care or are involved in podcasts:
I'd like to respectfully suggest that we, as blind folks, simply do not
know, nor should we try to guess what Deaf (or deaf) people are doing with
podcasts.
Would we like it if deaf people were speculating about us, our needs, and
what we do or do not see or want?
We have no idea, for example, what could possibly be done by organizations
who currently provide audio podcasts, but could, given the availability of
video ipods, also provide transcripts if they wished. It's even
conceivable to me that those transcripts could be synchronized with the
audio.
As someone suggested, there is video blogging, and with the new video
ipods, I wonder whether that may, eventually, be included in the
directories. It may not be, but it might be. Who actually knows? Who
has defined a podcast as ONLY being audio-based, period?
Just as there is a spectrum of what it means to be blind, there's a wide
spectrum in the deaf community in terms of who can hear what and how.
Plenty of deaf people can talk which seems contrary to the way people are
imagining deafness on this list.
So, as with other ideas about which there's considerable speculation about
what is, and is not being done by podcasters with disabilities, I would
encourage us all to wait and see who shows up and who's doing what with
which technologies..
By the way, my grandparents were deaf, so I would suggest that I actually
have some credibility to speak on this subject.
Best,
Jennifer
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