avengent:defender-of-fictional-women: Shoshannah Stern on PROFILE by BuzzFeed News Stop cutting si
avengent: defender-of-fictional-women: Shoshannah Stern on PROFILE by BuzzFeed News Stop cutting signs out of the frame! I wouldn’t play music or black out someone’s mouth when they were talking. I get where you’re coming from: signing is the main mode of communication for Deaf people, and cutting that out is equal to cutting out spoken English, say, for hearing people. But these are gifs with captions and no sound. It is not more accessible to hearing people than to deaf or hard of hearing people, and it’s hardly comparable to playing music over someone’s voice.FYI, I would have left her full signing frame in the gifs if the original video hadn’t obstructed the view immediately below where I cropped it. It did, however, provide accurate captions, which is not the same but takes a step toward accessibility. -- source link