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As someone was walking their three dogs, they gave Geo a 👋

And he laid down in the grass and stretched as far as he could go

I believe Geo felt seen across the park today. He is still working on being comfortable as a deaf dog in a city. 💖

#deaf #DogsofMastodon #Geo

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Attended a community screening with open #AudioDescription and guess what? Sighted people loved it, but best of all, we didn't have to use apps for AD, we didn't have to fiddle with special equipment for us, everyone got the same experience. The movie also had captions for the #Deaf too and, gasp, my Deaf friends and I could actually enjoy something together for free! Revolutionary! This took place in a #Library and it was amazing

So Google showed off a new feature on their Android keyboard where you can use ASL for dictation. On paper it seems very useful, but when I stopped to think about it it didn't make much sense to me.

Voice dictation has advantages over typing in that it's faster (albeit with less control over the exact transcribed text), and can be done with one hand or sometimes even hands free without looking at the screen. Meanwhile the new ASL dictation is still faster with less control, but seemingly requires three hands (one of them can be a mount) and to look at the screen while you use both hands for signing. In what situations would this be better than typing?

Can I get any thoughts on this from any deaf/mute people? Or even from hearing/voiced people who use voice dictation, as I almost never use that feature. It's entirely possible I missed something, but my current analysis is that it's yet another flashy yet ultimately useless feature.

#Accessibility #A11y #Deaf #Mute #Google #Android #ASL #Gboard #SignLanguage

I feel like I have to do an #introduction post after 3 years on this instance.
I'm sans serif girl - even if, at 40, I'm not a girl anymore (actually I'm not exactly a girl at all 'cause my gender is neutral, but you know force of habit; also in Italian we don't have a neutral equivalent and I'm not very fond of overextended [? I don't even know if this word exists] masculine) but I'm quite attached to this nickname - a neutral person, my pronouns are she/they, I'm #ace, #biromantic, #autistic and #deaf in my left ear.
I'm boring even if I laugh over the stupidest things and on a scale of 1 to 10 my mood is always an honest 5. Like Fiona Apple's meme in my pinned posts I don't like to go out (if it entails socializing and meeting people) except for walking my #dog (I have an old female dog that I love very much) and exploring the #countryside and river banks.
All my interests are things that I can do on my own like #reading, #writing, #MusicListening, watching #OldMovies, going on walks, taking nature #pictures. I told you: boring!
My best friends live far away from me and I'm obviously sad about it, but not so sad as a normal person would be because I don't despise my time alone, on the contrary I quite like it as it allows me to recharge from everyday stressing things like noises, traffic, work, and of course PEOPLE.
When I had my full earing I used to play the bass guitar and ukulele (and a bit of violin) but I quit because with only one ear left I find it quite difficult and a little bit painful. I also loved going to concerts but I can't anymore.
So most of my free time slots now are taken up by reading #manga #manhwa and #manhua, like I used to when I was in my twenties. One has to do something to entertain theirselves, no?
I'm also quite interested in #astrology and #tarots, that I use as a way to better understand myself.
I believe in #accessibility and that's why I'll always demand an alt text on your pictures and won't boost pictures without it.
I don't do immediate follow back because 1. I want to know who is following me 2. even when, after some time, I think someone is ok I almost always forget to reciprocate.
But you know: bad friend 🤝 bad mastodon user.
I've clearly forgotten something fundamental* but I'll blame the time and my age.
*Here we go! The first thing I’d forgotten is that, as one of my dearest friends always tells me, my love language is "a meme for every occasion". There’s a meme for everything, I’m sure I’ve got one in my endless archive and I'm going to post it. The second thing is that, unlike many people, I like voice messages a lot, even the longest ones. But I don't like podcasts for the record, nor audiobooks. The third thing is that, despite having read so much theory, I can’t bring myself to call me a #feminist. When I think of feminists, the image that springs to mind is about people who manage to put theory into practice, activists who take up spaces. I can’t do that – for various reasons I won’t delve into here – and so I don’t think it’s right for me to claim the label for myself. However, I have great respect for the comrades who carry out feminist practices into everyday lives.
And now for some faves:
- writers: #DaphneDuMaurier #DianaWynneJones #UrsulaKLeGuin #ShirleyJackson #JRRTolkien #NnediOkorafor
- musicians: I've always listened to a lot of kinds of music but if I must choose my all time fave is #JoannaNewsom
- movies: almost all where #CaryGrant starred, plus #ColdComfortFarm #Smultronstället and #NoisesOff
- tv series: #TwinPeaks #VeronicaMars #MontyPythonsFlyingCircus and #MurderSheWrote
- animals: #dogs #goats #donkeys

Lovely Peeps! Your cool #history for the day! 🚀

(You might want to watch with sound off. The music has words & I found it difficult to hear the music, read the text, AND focus on the signing.)

If you want to just enjoy the signing, the full text is within this post. 😊

"Everyone’s talking about Artemis II. The first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years. Historic mission.

But nobody’s talking about the #Deaf men who made it possible.

In the late 1950s, #NASA had a problem. They needed to understand what weightlessness does to the human body. But every test subject kept getting violently motion sick.

So they came to #Gallaudet.

Eleven Deaf men. Most of them had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children, which also damaged their vestibular system. Their inner ears couldn’t be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.

NASA put them in centrifuges. Zero-gravity flights. A rotating room for twelve straight days. One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters. The researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.

Their bodies gave NASA the data it needed to send humans into space.

No #Gallaudet_Eleven — no Mercury. No Mercury — no Apollo. No Apollo — no Artemis II.

Sixty years later, four astronauts just flew 252,000 miles from Earth & came home safely.

They stood on the shoulders of eleven Deaf men most people have never heard of.

Now you know!"

#Artemis2 #ASL #History #TIL #Nyle_di_Marco

#Deaf folks: I'm writing a character who's dealing with sudden hearing loss, and I'm discovering fuck-all for what to do once that happens to you. Looking at all the US based hearing loss groups & state resources, and there's social support & medical, but literally nothing about learning ASL nevermind anything resembling "here's what you need to know re your new life challenges & how to cope"

a) wtf?!
b) What does learning #ASL as a deaf adult look like?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/117025751023576699

Really hard to appreciate this when you know that:
1) Bell's wife was #Deaf, and his reaction to her deafness was to
2) wage a global campaign against Sign Language and to promote forced vocalization/so-called "lip reading."

Bell created a nightmare for Deaf people literally across the globe, and amends have yet to be properly made.

Fuck Alexander Graham Bell to Hell. 1/3

YachtSinkers!, our accessible game about orcas sinking billionaire yachts, is done!

https://peterdrake.itch.io/yachtsinkers

#GameDev #orca #accessibility #a11y #blind #deaf #BlindGamer

The crualty really is the point. The only reason my former friends that are Republican thought I should have "socialist" services because they knew me. If they didn't have a personal connection to you though? Well, you don't mean jack shit to these people. It's like loving pets. They love their own pets but love kicking other people's loved ones. How Trump’s Deportation Machine Deprives Deaf People of Their Humanity https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/how-trumps-deportation-machine-deprives-deaf-people-of-their-humanity/ #Deaf