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Youtubers that caption their videos

Rikki Poynter

Tyler Oakley

Tomska

Life and Deaf

Alexa Poletti

Chescaleigh

Hannah Witton

Kat Blaque

Matthew Santoro

IISuperwomanII

Paul Roth

ASL Stew

Annie Elainey

Alexandria Taylor

James Rath

Erika Lynae

Jesse Springer

Kalei Lagunero

Rinceyreads

Good Mythical Morning

Jon Cozart 

Thomas Sanders (only a few of his have cc, but I’m putting him in because I believe he would not say no to captioning the rest)

I will be adding to this list as more come to my attention - feel free to add ones I may have missed!  

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Portland becomes first city to require closed captions on all public TVs

Bars, restaurants and hospitals who don't turn on the captions risk a $500 fine. But a group of deaf activists say they don't want to penalize businesses, just educate them.

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Hi! This is not an usual content posted on this blog but this is really important. Deaf Action Center (DAC), a non-profit agency in Dallas, TX, is dedicated to better the lives of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing through a variety of programs. One program they have is for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Senior Citizens. DAC has two old vans in horrible conditions that they use to bring the Senior Citizens around. As you may know, socialization is important for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and even more important for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Senior Citizens who are struggling with not just communication barriers but also mobility issues. So the twin sisters Heidi and Hedy (well-known for their humorous videos on Youtube) and I made a video to raise money for new vans for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Senior Citizens. I have captioned the video for the non-ASL users (goo learn ASL if you haven’t). I also have uploaded my script for the Blind and the Deaf-Blind. The link is in the video description. Enjoy the video! If you can, pleasee donate to http://www.northtexasgivingday.org/#npo/deaf-action-center Donations will be accepted from 6AM to midnight (Central Time Zone) on September the 17th. If a donation is over $25, North Texas Giving Day will multiply the donation! If you can’t, that’s okay! You can just reblog and boost this. Thank you! ^__^

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I know I just followed your blog... is there chance to add caption or at least text description to images you post? I'm also blind and certain colours are hard to see. I know others would appreciate too. Thanks if can.

Crap. I’m sorry! I didn’t think of this but of course, I’ll definitely add captions to my posts from now on. Have a good day! :)

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Hi! In one of my classes, I did a presentation on deaf representation in media and thought I’d share on here :)

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i'm deaf. like totally deaf, i have deaf parents and a few family members of mine are deaf also. this blog is. the. shit. just sayin' (x

Same here! My parents, siblings and I are deaf. I have 16 uncles and aunts. Six of them are deaf and everyone, including their children/my cousins, can sign. It’s a big deaf/hearing family… x_x And, thank you! :)

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you have better cat reflexes and peripheral vision compared to those who can hear yet you don’t know why hearing people think deaf people are bad drivers.

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that tv show “Switched at Birth” came on air, it was only what people could talk about.

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you can ignore people easily by turning off your hearing aids.

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for some reason, people assume you know braille because you know ASL.

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you have zero privacy, thanks to the “deaf world” for being small that word gets around fast.

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you say goodbye to your friends, then have to say goodbye again an hour later, because deaf people always have “just one more thing” to talk about. Always.

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you go to deaf parties only to find yourself surrounded by people you used to go out with.

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you have to flash the light to get everyone in the room’s attention.

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you secretly enjoy an audiologist piping cold moulds into your ear to make new hearing aids.

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it’s normal for other deaf people to bluntly tell you that you’ve gained weight.