deaf vs. Deaf

The article by Lisa Herrod about Deafness and the User Experience was enlightening in many ways. She provided many examples and reasons as to why simple subtitles are not enough to consider a website accessible for a Deaf user. There were a lot of things that I learned that I didn't know before, for example, I had never really thought about the possible difficulty presented to the Deaf by phonetics and slang used in our everyday language. The examples she used explained the issue very well.

Also, her definitions of captioning and subtitling, and of transcription and translation were quite helpful as well. She also presented many valuable real world situations, for instance, the curbs used for wheelchair users are also very valuable to other people as well.

Overall, I enjoyed this article.