911 Staff Will Text Message With Deaf Canadians

CBC - 911 staff will text message with Deaf Canadians.



OTTAWA - Canadians who have hearing or speech problems will soon be able to send text messages to 911 services.



Other Canadians, however, must continue to communicate with 911 services over the phone, says Canada's telecommunications regulator.



By Jan. 24, 2014, all telephone and wireless companies must upgrade their networks to support text messaging communication with Canadians who have hearing and speech impairments. The service may become available before then in areas where the upgrades are completed early.



"Services such as 911 are critical to the health and safety of all Canadians,” said Jean-Pierre Blais, chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in a statement Thursday.



“This initiative is a perfect example of how technology can be used to improve access to 911 services for Canadians with disabilities." ... Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/01/24/tech-911-texting.html

ADA Effective Communication - Title III in ASL

Video with Captions - ADA Effective Communication: Title III in American Sign Language.



ADA Effective Communication using Title III and ASL from the Disability and Communication Access Board - Honolulu, Hawaii.



Communication Access Provisions Title III of the Americans with Disability Act for Public Accommodations: http://hawaii.gov/health/dcab/docs/fact_sheets/ca_pa.pdf



Lack of effective communication. ADA effective communication systems tool in the ongoing battle against disability discrimination. In a recent in-depth article assessing the impact of the ADA in Hawaii. http://dredf.org/international/paper_y-g.html



Legal Resources - Disability Rights: The ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act): Questions and Answers, visit http://www.davislevin.com/facts_adaqa2.html for more information.



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What Is It Like For Deaf People Without Captions ?

Video: What is it like for Deaf people without captions ? [#captionTHIS]

Video by JuliaDameron



See the original #captionTHIS video - #captionTHIS

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Further information regarding captioning and accessibility can be found at:



GLAD's lawsuit against CNN:

http://www.gladinc.org/information-center/in-the-news/2011/breaking-news-cnn-...



NAD's lawsuit against Netflix:

http://www.nad.org/news/2011/6/nad-files-disability-civil-rights-lawsuit-agai...



Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning:

http://ccacaptioning.org/



More Benefits of captions:

http://curbcut.net/accessibility/the-benefits-of-captions-legit/



Forbes article on CC Upgrades, Searchability and Why It's Personal:

http://onforb.es/y3pYki



Video created by Jules Dameron

http://www.julesdameron.com

#captionTHIS: Day of Action

Video: #captionTHIS Day of Action June 6th is when we work together to protest to end the injustice from oppression, because we care!

Video by monkichia



Transcript is included in this description, after these links.



Sign the petition at:

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To send letters to different companies and learn more about this:

http://blog.deafpolitics.org/2012/05/captionthis-social-media-movement.html



Further information regarding captioning and accessibility can be found at GLAD's lawsuit against CNN:

http://www.gladinc.org/information-center/in-the-news/2011/breaking-news-cnn-...



NAD's lawsuit against Netflix:

http://www.nad.org/news/2011/6/nad-files-disability-civil-rights-lawsuit-against-netflix



Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning:

http://ccacaptioning.org/



More Benefits of captions:

http://curbcut.net/accessibility/the-benefits-of-captions-legit/



Forbes article on CC Upgrades, Searchability and Why It's Personal:

http://onforb.es/y3pYki



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Special thanks to Ben Jarashow for the Pierre Desloges quote!

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