Lack of closed captioning for public meetings violates the rights of the deaf, he claims. A deaf man has filed lawsuits against more than 50 Florida counties, cities, school boards and more, CBS News reports. The lawsuits claim that each body failed to provide closed captioning for live-streamed...
MIT researchers develop a system that doesn’t rely on light. Autonomous vehicles that rely on light-based image sensors often struggle to see through blinding conditions, such as fog. But MIT researchers have now developed a system that could help steer driverless cars when traditional...
Sunday’s episode showed viewpoint of the deaf character. Sunday’s episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ did something viewers had never seen before, Insider reports. Part way through the episode, the zombie drama switched points of view to show the apocalypse from the viewpoint of...
Effort is part of his Eagle Scout service project.Starting this week, drivers in Frisco, Texas who are hearing impaired can display a special placard to let police officers know they may have trouble understanding commands, NBC News reports.This new approach to improving communication between the...
British woman has synthetic gene injected into her eye. A British woman has become the first person in the world to undergo gene therapy for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), The Telegraph reports. Macular degeneration is the most common cause of vision loss in the developed world.Surgeons...
Compounded drugs are not tested by the FDA. Patients at two Dallas-area surgery centers claim they have suffered damage to their vision — many of them nearly blind, WFAA News reports. Of the 68 patients, 60 have filed lawsuits claiming a drug made by a Dallas-based compounding pharmacy led...
Residents signed up for night courses to learn ASL. Two years ago, Glenda and Raphi Savitz moved to Newton, Massachusetts. Soon afterwards they welcomed their daughter Samantha, who was born deaf, WCVB TV reports.. “She was the first deaf person my husband and I had ever known,”...
Endangered animal is closest relative to giraffe. A veterinary team has successfully performed a delicate surgery to save the eyesight of a young African animal that looks like a cross between a giraffe and a zebra, the Gainesville Sun reports. The endangered animal, a 2-month-old okapi calf named...
Apps provide speech-to-text and sound amplification. Google is rolling out two new Android apps to help people with hearing problems, Fortune magazine reports. Live Transcribe provides hard-of-hearing and deaf people with text-to-speech, with real-time captions on users’ phones that appear during...
Click to set custom HTML And it’s good! Clay Warner’s team was down 15, but you wouldn’t know it by the cheering, The Washington Post reports. The crowd knew that the 18-year-old senior had been waiting for the chance to play for years. He had suited up for every game, but until Friday...
Deaf-owned businesses are booming. Faced with widespread, chronic unemployment, but also benefiting from improvements in communication technology, deaf people are creating their own businesses and pushing employers to become more deaf and sign-language friendly, National Public Radio reports. In...
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