The USA are much better at ensuring their emergency broadcasts are interpreted in ASL compared to the UK with it's minimal, if any BSL interpretation. But their live subtitles are just as bad as ours - perhaps this makes it clear why we complain about our live subtitles (pre-recorded shows and pre-subtitled shows are not always any better). Not every deaf person signs, I don't. We need better subtitles and every emergency broadcast (why not ALL shows?) to be interpreted. Reposted from @adventuresindeafed Just another example of why interpreters are critical for providing accurate information during live news broadcasts. Captions on news channels are simply unreliable. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Personally, I HATE watching the news because the closed captions suck! Just being real here... They’re super delayed and are often loaded with incorrect words or phrases. Case in point: “Stay home or only go out for a sexual trip.” 🤦🏻♀️ Yikes!
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