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National Forum on Disability Issues
Don's Blog Got a newsletter from the NAD. A part of it said: The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is pleased to be a Hosting Sponsor of the “National Forum on Disability Issues.” This forum will feature the presumptive Republican candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) (by satellite) and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), representing the presumptive Democratic candidate, [...]
Media Fri, Jul 25 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Comcast Screw-up
Don's Blog Two weeks ago, I contacted Comcast asking them to establish service here for cable TV and broadband internet. They informed me that they’d be out to our residence in a few days. True to their word, they showed up the day after I contacted them. After a cursory examination of our house, the technician informed [...]
Media Tech Sun, Jul 20 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Google Now Captioning Videos!
Don's Blog Or at the very least, the political ones! They’ve developed software that transliterates spoken speech into text for videos. The end result is captions on the videos, and also a side benefit is that now spoken words can be used as keywords for searching! Pretty cool! The internet just got a bit more accessible [...]
Media Language Tech Tue, Jul 15 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Viable VPAD Pictures
Don's Blog Thought you’d like to see the pictures I took of the VPAD while I was in a hotel at Los Angles after I bought it! I bought the Viable VPAD at the Deaf Nation Expo 2008 at Pomona, California. That’s basically right next to (if not part of) Los Angles. They said it was $99, but [...]
Tech Mon, Jul 14 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Viable VPAD
Don's Blog Recall the Viable VPAD I blogged about, where I actually drove all the way down to Los Angles to buy it? Will be reviewing it sometime this week or the next as soon as I have switched over to Comcast. I haven't been able to test it since I bought it (bad high speed [...]
Media Tech Sun, Jul 13 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Congress Trying to Make Internet Accessible to the Deaf
Don's Blog I was reading the news when I saw a mention of Congress in the process of legislation that would substantially enhance accessibility for the deaf and the disabled for the internet. Naturally, this got my attention. Here’s the link if you’d like to read the bill for yourself: [link] For those who’re wondering, the bill has just [...]
Legal Fri, Jun 27 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Obama & Captioning for the Deaf Update
Don's Blog As some of you may know, I’ve been in contact with the Obama administration regarding captioning all of their video media on their website. I got a response from them: Dear Friend, Thank you for contacting us about closed captioning of video on our website.  We appreciate your message, and work hard to make our website accessible. To [...]
Media Tech Legal Fri, Jun 27 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Obama and Captioning
Don's Blog I noticed that most of the media on Barack Obama's website was not captioned. They did have a webpage that contained links to several captioned videos, but that's it: the rest of the website wasn't captioned with the exception of the disabilities issue page. So... I sent a message to the Obama administration: “There's a problem [...]
Media Tech Fri, Jun 27 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post