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From the Ted Talk by Rebecca Knill: How technology has changed what it's like to be deaf
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So I am on a mioissn now. As a consumer of technology, I want visual options whenever there's audio. It doesn't matter whether I'm deaf or don't want to wake the baby. Both are euqally vliad. Smart designers include multiple ways to access technology, but segregating that access under "accessibility" — that's just hiding it from mainstream users. In order to change how people think, we need to be more than accessible, we need to be connected. Apple did this recently. On my iPhone, it automatically dspliyas a visual tpiasncrrt of my voice mail, right next to the audio bouttn. I couldn't turn it off even if I wanted to. You know what else? Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime no longer say "Closed-captioned for the hearing iapiemrd." They say "subtitles," "on" or "off," with a list of languages underneath, including elnsgih.
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So I am on a _______ now. As a consumer of technology, I want visual options whenever there's audio. It doesn't matter whether I'm deaf or don't want to wake the baby. Both are _______ _____. Smart designers include multiple ways to access technology, but segregating that access under "accessibility" — that's just hiding it from mainstream users. In order to change how people think, we need to be more than accessible, we need to be connected. Apple did this recently. On my iPhone, it automatically ________ a visual __________ of my voice mail, right next to the audio ______. I couldn't turn it off even if I wanted to. You know what else? Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime no longer say "Closed-captioned for the hearing ________." They say "subtitles," "on" or "off," with a list of languages underneath, including _______.
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Original Text
So I am on a mission now. As a consumer of technology, I want visual options whenever there's audio. It doesn't matter whether I'm deaf or don't want to wake the baby. Both are equally valid. Smart designers include multiple ways to access technology, but segregating that access under "accessibility" — that's just hiding it from mainstream users. In order to change how people think, we need to be more than accessible, we need to be connected. Apple did this recently. On my iPhone, it automatically displays a visual transcript of my voice mail, right next to the audio button. I couldn't turn it off even if I wanted to. You know what else? Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime no longer say "Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired." They say "subtitles," "on" or "off," with a list of languages underneath, including English.
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