Comments on: Aging, Cognition & Deafness

By: Andrew Borloz

Andrew Borloz — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:03:37 +0000

I came to your site via other site (alistapart.com) where your article on the deafness and the user experience appeared. Best article I ever come across relating to the language and web content for the deaf. I am profoundly deaf (with a small d), but I happened to be much more like a hearing person culturally and education-wise. Thanks so much for the great article, and I hope it will help me explain the inadequacies of the captioning. Also, I did not know that there’s a difference between captioning and subtitling!

By: Gonzalo González Mora

Gonzalo González Mora — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:39:50 +0000

I just read your article @ A List Apart, it was really interesting indeed. I’m making my first steps in web development and I’m really interested in accessibility and usability. Anyway, thanks for the article and I wish you the best of luck at the voting. I won’t be able to attend but I’m sure it’ll be worth it for those who can!

Greetings from Argentina,

Gonzalo

By: Christopher Mackay

Christopher Mackay — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:56:36 +0000

Thanks so much for your article on A List Apart. It’s the best I’ve seen on the subject. It leaves me thinking about internationalization and re-thinking my definition of multi-lingual web sites. We often work on French and English (Canadian) sites, and this opens many questions for me: do the Deaf/deaf in Canada speak ASL? What about those of Acadian or Quebecois descent? (sorry, no accents on the iPhone…) I find myself embarrassed that I don’t know.

By: scenariogirl

scenariogirl — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:32:24 +0000

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for taking the time to find your way over here from ALA :)

I’m really happy that you liked the article.

You’ve inspired me to write another article on this! Come back soon so you can tell me a bit more about your personal experience with captioning and subtitles :)

Hi Gonzalo,

WOW! Argentina, that’s really very cool.

There is so much to know about web usability and accessibility isn’t there? I found the best thing for me was to get a good general idea of how it all worked and then started to learn more about the areas I was most interested in.

What do you find most interesting about usability and accessibility at the moment?

Hi Chrisopher,

Internationalization is an interesting comparison to make and I’ve been thinking about it more following some comments on my ALA post.

As far as I know, Canadian sign language is based on American (ASL)… but I don’t really know anything about the regional differences… let’s go look at wikipedia!

Oh that’s interesting. You shouldn’t feel embarrassed that you’re unsure about it.

You know, if you’re interested to learn a bit more about it, I’d suggest any of those books I listed on ALA. When the Mind Hears is particularly good for an historical perspective on how ASL originated.

By: Ruth Ellison

Ruth Ellison — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:04:57 +0000

Voting - done! It’s a well thought out session. The only downside? I wish I could be attending South by South West to hear the session!

All the best to you and your fellow presenters.

By: Julianne

Julianne — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:40:36 +0000

Looks like a great panel - hope it gets chosen! I have a step-daughter with ONE ear; it’s been interesting to see how she uses her iPod differently etc.

Actually I came over here to thank you for the great work you have been doing with WebJam. Amazing how you can remember everyone’s names - I admire your mad network/organisational skillz!