Archive for May, 2008

Closed Captioning on the Internet

May 29, 2008 in Technologies
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Here is the summary of the lecture I presented during the centennial anniversary celebration of Philippines School for the Deaf last December 2007.
Closed Captioning is one of the important priority recommendations of Web Accessibility Initiative of World Wide Web Consortium or W3C (Priority 1-1.3 and 1-1.4) and of Philippine Web Accessibility Group Maturity Stage 1-5.
If [...]

Update on Airline Not Allowing Deaf Persons

May 28, 2008 in Discrimination Issues
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My first blog entry was about the discrimination and humiliation done by Cebu Pacific Airlines against Deaf passengers.This is an update of what the Persons with Disabilities sector has been doing in reference to this incident.

The National Council on Disability Affairs Sub-committee on Accessibility are discussing the formal filing of official complaint directly against [...]

Yay! Next 1000 visits!

May 27, 2008 in Hello from Me
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Yay! My site again reached another 1000 visits! I know I sound too silly and my happiness is too shallow. Hey! Every milestone is worth remembering and I am remembering this.
I wasn’t able to post any new entry for almost ten days because I was too busy running our deaf school. We celebrated our 10th graduation [...]

Deaf Big Brother Housemate Evicted

May 18, 2008 in Deaf Experiences
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Deaf Stress Video

May 16, 2008 in Deaf Experiences
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Guys, please watch this amateur video made by our deaf students at Manila Christian Computer Institute for the Deaf (MCCID). This ten-minute drama story in Open Caption shows the Deaf person’s life after graduating in college and having difficulty finding job. It has been uploaded in YouTube only a few months ago yet it already [...]

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