Posted an entry on the main blog regarding marketing to people with disabilities. Have an experience? Please share so others may learn from it.

October 15 is Blog Action Day in which bloggers post something about helping the environment. One thing I wish everyone especially politicians would do is watch An Inconvenient Truth. Forget what you think of Al Gore, good or bad, the message comes through clear — we must do something for our environment and our future.
You don’t have to do something big like buy a hybrid car. Little things like recycling make a difference. One thing I try to do is limit how much I print. When I do print something, I reuse the back of the paper whenever possible. For shredded paper, I use them in packaging.
If you have hearing aids, TTYs, glasses and other equipment that you or someone else no longer uses, consider recycling them by donating them. The following resources accepts equipment donations:
* Lions Club
* Help the Children Hear
* Hearing Aid for Latin America
* The Starkey Hearing Foundation’s Hear Now
Gallaudet has a page of information pointing to more resources.
Here are resources from Blog Action Day’s site. Go, Green!

The ardent support of web accessibility and captioning shares his honest opinion of what’s wrong with online captioning. The focus is on the quality not the lack thereof. It’s a great read in an outline format since it’s from a presentation he gave. Sure, I’d like online captioning to look and read better — but I’ll take what I can get as there’s so little of it online.
One thing that caught my eye from the outline:

Not only is only one show captioned, they have yet again found a new and shocking way to completely screw it up. (Continuous scrolling text in a frame to the right of the image, with upcoming text clearly visible and the current text scrolled upward into a reverse-type field. And! All capitals! 1979 called; it wants its captioning back.)

TV captions have always and continue to be — all uppercase. Why should online captioning be different? In the example Clark refers to — upper case is the least of the problems. The image background makes it very hard to read.
Regardless — I appreciate that he’s speaking loud and clear for online captioning.

Christy Smith, a contestant who is deaf and appeared in Survivor: Amazon, is working with David Justice, sign language interpreter and job coach in Discovering Deaf Worlds. They plan to travel to different countries to meet with Deaf storytellers, community leaders, organizations, and youth from New Zealand, Australia, Japan, China, Thailand, India, Nepal, Kenya.
“While traveling around the world, Dave and Christy intend to visit many Deaf schools and organizations. Their goal is to gain a better understanding of a variety of cultures worldwide, and share the experiences they bring from the United States. They will be capturing traditional stories of native Deaf signers, interviewing Deaf leaders on current issues in their communities, living the adventures each country has to offer, and creating possibilities along the way.” [Thank you, Paula]

A fantastic deaf karaoke performance “singing” Natalia Imbruglia’s Torn.