“Since so many of you people felt the need to show up, well make an exception to the no subtitles rule, but never again.” -city employees when I, a Deaf person asked them to put on captions on community movie night (which is my fave movie tonight)

andreashettle:

translatingableism-archive:

Translation: “I’m too lazy to accommodate your needs.”
Mod Reptonic

(What a jerk)

Agreed that he is a jerk, but since they apparently have a “no subtitles” rule I think it goes beyond simply being too lazy to hit the “cc” button.

“I have such a profound sense of over-entitlement that I think it is more important to cater to the temporary distraction of hearing people who aren’t used to seeing subtitles/captions on the screen than it is to stop deliberately creating accessibility barriers that exclude people who are Deaf, deaf, hard of hearing, or have audio processing disorder. I define “community” to include only people who are hearing, anyone in the community who has a disability requiring the need for captions is not someone I see as a community member.”