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Subtitles and Virgin part 3

Submitted by Dafydd on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 11:17

Today I was thinking that maybe I have been to harsh to the profoundly hearing people or the BSL impaired people who work at Virgin.

So I thought I would give them some pity and help them to learn how to fit in with the Deaf world.

So I have posted the following on their website, speaking of which they still haven't approved my comments. Oh Hum!!!!

"I am dissappointed you have’t been in touch but I have done some reasearch for you.

there are loads of tools out there that will allow you to add subtitles or closed captions to your tube videos.

You tube themselves offer a tool I have provided a link

In case you are wondering how I know about this I used Google"

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Submitted by Dafydd on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 09:13

As expected Richard Brnson and Virgin have not approved my post

I have now posted the following on their website which I expected will not be approved again!!!

So now I am off to email EHRC and my local politicans and take it from there.

I will keep you up todate.

"I am dissappointed you didn't approve my post.

You therefore give me no option but to go to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission to put a formal complaint.

I will also be contacting my MP's and AM's to raise this issue why a large company like yourselves are refusing to subtitle your adverts.

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Submitted by Dafydd on Wed, 05/06/2009 - 20:30

I am getting fed up of large organizations failing to provide subtitles or closed captions on their videos.

Do they think Deaf people are not important?

Do they think it is justifiable to discriminate against Deaf people?

The most recent video clip I have seen if from Richard Branson

I posted the following comment. I don't know if the comment will be approved so I am posting it here.

"I am disappointed with the advert because I can't access them.

with an estimated 1 in 7 people being Deaf or hard of hearing there are no closed captions or subtitles.

So either you have forgotten about Deaf people or you don't want Deaf people to use Virgin?

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