• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Kirk said that closed captioning was good enough. Live closed captioning is awful. Plus, you don’t have to get a university degree to do closed captioning. You do to translate to ASL because it requires accuracy and that involves interpretation.

    Plus, people in the room don’t have the benefit of captions,.

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      20 hours ago

      “Why would they allow deaf people in the room? Isn’t it enough that they can watch it on TV like normal people?”