Tag: Disability
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#DontRemoveYoutubeCCs: Community captions ‘benefit everyone’
Charities are calling for YouTube to reconsider getting rid of a tool that helps people with hearing loss watch videos. Community captions – when users upload subtitles to other people’s videos – are being removed from the platform. The British Deaf Association and Action on Hearing Loss say YouTube should engage with the deaf community…
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‘We need flawed disabled characters on TV’
Comedian Rosie Jones wants disabled TV characters who are ‘gritty and flawed’. Read the full interview on BBC Newsbeat here.
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Sesame Street’s autistic girl isn’t the first muppet to reflect the times
Sesame Street has introduced its latest muppet – a little girl called Julia, who has autism. Her introduction will attempt to explain the complex topic to a young audience. But this isn’t the first time Sesame Street has been a trailblazer in introducing socially progressive characters to children. Click here to see the full story…
Imran Rahman-Jones 