[NFB-DB] Asking What feels like a stupid question

[Rox Homstad]

Hello,
If you are having a virtual convention you will at the very least need captioning which does cost. I would encourage you to pay someone who has been trained for this work and not accept volunteers.  Captioners should be timely, consistant, neutral, and will abide by a code of ethics which prohibits them from discussing/disclosing anything that happens for an event they caption. Volunteers may not be any of these things.  I would encourage you to use CART, as opposed to the caption feature of Zoom as it allows for Deafblind people to read at their own pace rather than dealing with flash captioning which goes line by line with each line appearing for a brief time, which means the DB person cannot take their hands off the display without risking missing out on content.
There may be some Deafblind people with enough sight to use an ASL interpreter, but one of the downsides of a virtual convention is that folks like myself who use tactile interpretation cannot access the interpreter because we do not have enough sight and must therefore, rely upon captioning.
 Good luck and I look forward to coming to your convention!


Rox'E and the Kitchen Bitches
Soleil, Rowan, Phoenix
pawpower4me at gmail.com

> On Aug 17, 2020, at 2:26 PM, Doula Jarboe via NFB-DB <nfb-db at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hi All,
>  
>      I hope this finds everyone doing well.  Our state Convention here in Colorado is going to be anywhere and everywhere October 29th 30th and 31st.  Since I don’t use either interpreters or closed captioning, I need to know.  For both regular division meetings as well as the Convention, is one better than the other?  Are both needed?  What about costs?  I would think that a live interpreter would need to be compensated, is there also a cost for closed captioning?  Or, is one versus the other more a personal preference rather than one is better than the other?  Thanks for enlightening me on this matter.  And I hope you will come join us for our State convention.  Thanks so much everyone.
> Warmly,
> Doula
> President of our yet to be official Colorado Deafblind division
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