sweetstarz

I had some brief Deaf Education in high school when I was assigned to work with a special-needs instructor solely for the purpose of teaching me sign language to qualify as my foreign-language credit. This woman had been working with deaf people for years. I was told about the ADA and found the information she gave me fascinating. That was 10 years ago, though, and I haven't done much research on the ADA since then.

Now, I thought there was something in the ADA that covered captioning in movies and on TV shows. I had previously thought that anything produced after 1985 was required to provide captions. I have found over the years, though, that this doesn't seem to be the case, and so I wondered if I misunderstood? I've wondered this for years and never really knew who to ask.

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jillio

The American with Disabilities Act did not go in effect until 1990.

sweetstarz

I already knew that. I felt that was a personal insult to my intelligence after I'd already made a point that I'd had the Deaf Education. That seems like it would have been inherent information, don't you think? Anyway, I thought that maybe the ADA might have covered previous years.

Reba

Not all captioning laws are included in the ADA. It is the FCC that regulates TV broadcasting. See this:

Closed Captioning

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/caption.html

jillio

It was not an insult to your intelligence at all. You stated that you believed that the ADA covered media from 1985 forward. I was simply pointing out that, because the legislation did not become effective until 1990, it could not have possibly covered media from 1985 forward. It was not a retroactive legislation.

Quite simply, I was answering your question. And, obviously, you needed an answer, or you would not have asked the question in the first place.

Having Deaf Education does not automatically qualify one to interpret the ADA. As is evidenced by your having to ask the question in the first place. You also described your experience with DEaf Ed as "brief." , and stated that you had not done much research into the ADA.
Perhaps it would benefit you, if you are truly interested in learning, to go to the ADA website and download a copy of the actual document. You could then study it at your leisure, and not have to risk becoming overly defensive when you ask a question and it is answered.

sweetstarz

You did make some very good points there. I apologize if I came across too defensive. I really was having a bad day when I wrote the post. Next time I'll try not to ask questions before I've done the research.

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jillio

Not a problem. Glad we worked that out!

pek1

With all due respect to jillio, I need to mention to you, sweetstarz, that jillio is not only a teacher to the deaf and various other positions working with deaf students, she also has a deaf son. I'm deaf and oral, but I'm very assertive in finding out information, both online and in print, wherever I can. Yes, you do need to research before asking questions, because your questions will not only be answered, but those that you haven't thought of asking will be answered. Tough questions are still out there and it takes a village (singing in the background Y M C A by jillio) for all of us to understand what everyone else is going through.

Stick around, sweetstarz, you'll learn more for the price of your dialup.

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