[nfbwatlk] Fw: DVS Home Video Sales Effort Ends

[Carl Jarvis]

If it were possible to "describe" a concert for deaf people and deaf people 
requested that the concert be so described, and the folks in charge said 
they would not do so, due to the cost, then I would say that this was 
definitely discrimination.
If a bank sends you a letter and you request such communication to be in an 
accessible form, and they say this is something that they cannot afford to 
do, then it is discrimination.
When a governmental entity decides to send important information such as 
tornado warnings or hurricane advisories via TV rather than by radio, and 
they refuse to provide that information in spoken format, then I am being 
discriminated against.  .  Certainly there are many situations where an 
activity or service cannot be reasonably accommodated, but audio described 
TV is not one of them.

Carl Jarvis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Fw: DVS Home Video Sales Effort Ends


> Hypothetical question:
>
> Is the Seattle Symphony discriminating against the deaf by holding
> concerts?
>
> Mike Freeman
> ... "It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly." -- Anatole
> France
>
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Carl Jarvis
>  To: NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
>  Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 9:39 PM
>  Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Fw: DVS Home Video Sales Effort Ends
>
>
>  Good evening all,
>  Well, I have about 24 or 25 described videos
>    All are done in a way that does not interfere with the action or the
>  dialog.  And that comes from the full-visioned folks who watched them
> with
>  me.  Only in one film did the description come ahead of the action,
> tipping
>  the sighted viewers to what was about to happen.  But only once in 24
> or 25
>  films is not too bad.
>  I guess I feel that it's more of an infringement on my rights to
> provide a
>  public service without making it accessible to all of the public.
>
>  Carl Jarvis
>
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