severely hearing impaired people have told me that when they could not get their bosses, friends, spouses, or other family members to understand about their hearing impairment or about what sorts of accommodations they need in order to be able to fully participate in family or group get togethers or at work, sending them to my website helped a lot of recalcitrant "hearies" to understand how unnecessarily hard (and unpleasant) they make it for us when the slightest effort would make our lives so much easier.
About once a month here at DU I used to post a plea for other members to please, please, please include a brief summary of the main point of a video so that we deafies could have some idea of what it was about. Closed captioning on most videos is ridiculously bad. Usually there is little connection between the words in the captioning and the words being spoken in the video, but most hearies, since they don't need to use CC, have no idea of how hopelessly bad it is. Unfortunately, when I request a brief summary I often get back a snappish, "Why don't you just turn on the closed captioning?"
Understand, I am not requesting a transcript, just a brief heads up--one or two sentences--about the subject of the video.
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