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Discrimination can be so subtle that people aren't aware that they discriminate, yet it is damaging.
Deaf people have a word for this phenomen: Hearing Privilege.
Note: I am Deaf myself and sometimes I lend Hacker News my view about my experiences being a Deaf programmer and legal.
I am hard of hearing and lip read to assist with following conversations. I absolutely hate video conferencing tools. The sound is horrible and live captions are often incorrect. Very few people speak clearly enough for accurate captioning. I prefer to read and be shown rather than being told. I prefer email, and avoid voicemail. So if you are trying help your team mate, simply focus on alternatives to talking and li…
I find this frighteningly awesome and blasé.
Is this a team mate at a US company? If so, note that Teams live captioning may not be enough to meet your non discrimination requirements. Your company may have a legal obligation to hire an ASL interpreter or human transcriber, including for in person meetings. My biggest recommendation is to use a phone call for audio because he can then use America’s free video relay service for ASL or captioned telephone service…
I really appreciate reading this. This is good for me to know if I ever have the opportunity to work with a non-hearing person (not sure what is considered the most acceptable term).
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Yes, I have done many virtual meetings using VRS. You do have to ensure that you do everything a little slower if you’re using a lot of technical language because the terps need time to fingerspell. I’ve also used a video interpreting service for in person meetings (the terp is virtual everyone else is in person). That works well because private interpreter services will take the time to review a slide deck, notes, o…
In my experience, it hasn't been just a little slower — but that could of course be dependent on the response time of the callers I specifically was interacting with via the service.
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Yep! The scale I have seen used includes the terms “mild, moderate, severe, profound”… … ah. Here’s a chart that might help: https://www.asha.org/public/hearing/degree-of-hearing-loss/ I’m not an audiologist so while this is a great question I don’t have these answers at my fingertips :) At any rate, my “definition” was intended to clarify what mainstream meant in this context.
ah, "mainstreamed" means not using ASL as your primary language (or at all, sounds like?), got it. I have seen folks make a related distinction: born deaf or lost hearing. Then there are some categories which are defined by physiology: some folks can't receive any benefit from cochlear implants because the biological hardware isn't there to interface with. This just blows my mind: There are folks who fall into the su…
Is this a team mate at a US company? If so, note that Teams live captioning may not be enough to meet your non discrimination requirements. Your company may have a legal obligation to hire an ASL interpreter or human transcriber, including for in person meetings. My biggest recommendation is to use a phone call for audio because he can then use America’s free video relay service for ASL or captioned telephone service…
I’m not deaf or hard of hearding but I have ADHD and I might have auditory processing issues and I cannot stand when someone does this.
When in video meetings with team members, there are often a few people who do not turn on their video camera because of some reason given like "they are shy" or something. This is unacceptable because they have no problem with showing their face in the office instead of concealing it behind a veil. These people need to be reminded that to be inclusive with this team member, they need to turn their camera on. I rememb…
This is overlay simplistic. There are many reasons why people might have their cameras off, the main one that comes to mind is that it generally overly impacts women where there is a general (stupid) societal expectation that they have to look 'a certain way' (makeup , hair done etc). Having cameras off can mitigate this. I personally like cameras on, but it isn't good for everyone, and is not a clear cut decision by…
Women, I grant that there is much more effort required on their part.. but here is the thing.. if it's a scheduled business meeting in the calendar, if it was on the physical premises, they would be spending the time anyway on their appearance. So, this is not additional time they would need to spend but already allocated time. So if they are at a remote site, they should still be presentable because they are in the workplace.
Ask him! I bet he has a lot of the critical insight about what works best for him. (Maybe he's already expressing it?) And I also bet that asking him is the correct first step to integrating the insight he doesn't have. And I bet the fine details matter. "when Leonardo painted the portrait of Ginevra de Benci in the National Gallery, he put a juniper bush behind her head. In it he carefully painted each individual le…
Is this a team mate at a US company? If so, note that Teams live captioning may not be enough to meet your non discrimination requirements. Your company may have a legal obligation to hire an ASL interpreter or human transcriber, including for in person meetings. My biggest recommendation is to use a phone call for audio because he can then use America’s free video relay service for ASL or captioned telephone service…
https://www.drawbattle.io/ is a great bonding game with no audio needs