- From: Terrill Bennett <list.w3c@spam-message.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:52:26 -0500
- To: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
>> >>I have a short video where you just see a deaf person say something >>in sign language. Rhetorical question: Which sign language? Practically every country in the world has a different sign language. Within the United States, there are several used by the deaf (e.g. American Sign Language vs Pigeon Signed English). Which leads us to... >Providing captions won't help blind users Captions probably won't help blind people. But assuming deaf people wouldn't benefit from closed captions isn't a safe assumption. Captions could be invaluable to deaf people trying to learn the sign language being used in the video. For example, there are numerous deaf people who grew-up using the local spoken language (e.g. English), but who now wish to learn sign language (e.g. ASL). -- Terrill --
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