Subject: RE: Accessibility for Deaf
From: Joe Clark <[email-masked]>
To: WAI-IG <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 01:15:08 -0400
List-Id: <w3c-wai-ig.w3.org>

>From: Cynthia Waddell <[15][email-masked]>

Cynthia Waddell still works in our industry?

>Let's drop the "deaf/dumb" description in the subject header. This 
>is offensive to my community and harks back to those days when the 
>general population thought that we were dumb simply because we had a 
>hearing loss.

No, they thought you were *mute*, which is what "dumb" means in this 
sense and is untrue for many deaf people. The fact that it also means 
"stupid" is merely a second reason not to use it.

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