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New accessibility media player available

Yesterday we received  an email from Simon Hogg from  The Office for Disability Issues offering us their media player. I first asked about it in Jan 2010. It’s been a long wait but now you can use it too – for free. So if you want the option to add and view subtitles, audio description or sign language on videos there is a new option. You can change the font sizes, the colour, the sound level, the whole lot! Pesky People currently uses... 
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Vodaphone Spain launches Deaf sign language tarrif

WOW! @cataspanglish on twitter alerted us that there was a new mobile tariff being offered by Vodaphone Spain for Deaf people. Vodafone launched the sign fee for Deaf people, created in collaboration with the Confederation of the Deaf (CNSE) (CNSE – English info) and is intended to enable Deaf people to communicate in spanish sign language via their mobile phone for only €18.50 Euros (15.66 GBP) a month. More information on Vodaphone’s... 
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Jam Tomorrow Two

A free networking and sharing day for the Deaf and Disability arts sector takes place Monday 29th November 2010 hosted by The Deaf Cultural Centre (Ladywood Road, Birmingham, B16 8SZ). I’m doing a presentation about OLILI the digital platform  that I have in development. It will enable access information to be found easily online and will crowdsource knowledge and information from people themselves contributing. It has the potential to change... 
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Video complaint to Baroness Warsi Chair of Conservatives

This video is an open letter of complaint to Baroness Warsi, Chair of Conservative Party asking why my complaints about Conservative website video content and live streaming of the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham is inaccessible to Deaf or Hard of Hearing people. I sent an email complaint on 4 October, I also sent twitter messages since then to the Head of Digital for the Conservatives, twitter account @conservatives and used hashtag #cpc10. In... 
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Conservatives ignores Deaf complaints

Update: Still no response to our complaints why The Conservative Party conference is being streamed live but without providing subtitles or British Sign Language so that Deaf and Hard of hearing people can follow proceedings on their website. Why should we wait till the news reports come on when hearing people can follow proceedings live online? Should we only access it via TV coverage? Unfortunately NONE of the video content available on the Conservative... 
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