Delbert Whetter

But is there a third way? There’s always a third way.

Congratulations!!! Well deserved!

Giving a damn about accessibility A candid and practical handbook for designers.

Sheri Byrne-Haber's "Giving A Damn About Accessibility" has great tips on how to deal with people who challenge or dismiss the need for accessibility.

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EA makes eight new accessibility patents free to all Technologies include grapple assist, speech and audio generation tools, and improvements to its text and size contrast tool Fonttik

Fonttik expansion includes colorblind simulation filters to better design accessible text and identify barriers! Shoutouts to our accessibility engineering folks for innovating tools at EA and making them available worldwide for all game developers to use! ♿️👏

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To the Editor: I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body. I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities. There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate. For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema. Jason Jacoby Lee New York

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'KPop Demon Hunters' Shows How Culturally Authentic Storytelling is Done, Done, Done Will Hollywood learn the right lessons from Netflix and Sony Animation's runaway phenomenon?

Great article from one of my favorite writers, @therebeccasun.bsky.social with great takeaways on the importance of quality storytelling; meaningful collaboration with authentic creatives; and discarding the "outsiders gaze"-an overused, boring cliche that is all too often a gateway to tropes.

Deaf Mongolian immigrant held by ICE in California for 4 months with no access to interpreter — CalMatters A disabled immigrant’s detention underscores the shift in asylum policies at the Mexico border since President Trump took office.

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@flavorflav.bsky.social is an international treasure. Love to see it.

Are these vehicles road legal? License plates visible? Tags current? Tinted windows in compliance with regulations? If not, our law enforcement needs to impound those vehicles. All federal officials’ vehicles must be in compliance so why should ICE be treated any differently.

Can’t quite put my finger on it but somethings off with this poster.

SYNOPSIS: Following a seven-year long surrogacy process, gay deaf couple Alan Roth and Brian Blais finally brought their hearing twin babies home from India to New York. However, their journey through fatherhood meets new challenges when the increasingly rambunctious kids start screaming "you don't understand me" at them. "LOUD Love" is their story, a documentary about parenting, growth and its occasional hurdles. WHEN: July 12, 2025 at 10:30 am - 12:00 pm PT Tickets: http://tiny.cc/loudlovebravemaker2025 Price: Tickets are FREE (get your tickets at the above link) Where: BraveMaker Film Fest 1044 Middlefield Rd (2nd Floor Community Room) Redwood City, CA 94062

Excited to return to BraveMaker Film Festival in Redwood City to screen our award winning documentary “Loud Love” on July 12! FREE tickets here: tiny.cc/loudlovebrav...

The joys of indie film producing encapsulated in 25 seconds of video game footage.

We need more politicians like this treating people with disabilities as constituents AND as a key voting bloc.

A MAD Look At Movie Making

#marginalmonday
#madmagazine
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I told you we’d be back

Venice Beach’s slogan is “Where Art Meets Crime” and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Deaf = 1 Hearing = 0

Still pleasantly relieved there didn’t end up being a character in #Andor named Manny Bothans.

YouTube video by Technology Connections Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind

New video time!

A whole lot of folks keep forgetting about closed captions on DVDs, and as time has marched on this means they're getting less accessible.

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Hi, @motherjones.com disabled disability reporter here, I really want to hear about how tariffs are impacting disabled, chronically ill, and aging folks. Reposts appreciated and my email is jmetraux@motherjones.com.

So, I’m wondering how this AI detection would perceive a group of people communicating in ASL.

A Trade War Could Be A Disaster…For Hollywood The Tariff War Will be Digitized - The Most Important Story of the Week for 8-Apr-2025

Gotta be honest: I don't think Hollywood is taking the trade war/tariffs seriously.

But, you may say, Tariffs only impact about physical goods!

To which I say, "Hmmm." That's an assumption. If it turns out not to be true...watch out.

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This seems like an ideal spot for a Deaf dude like myself and my ASL-signing buddies!

LACD Invites you to a special screening of the award-winning documentary BEING MICHELLE. Sponsored by Thriving Roots Initiative and GLAD When: May 17, 2025 3:00 - 4:30 pm - screening of Being Michelle with ASL PiP 4:30 - 5:30 pm - Post-screening panel discussion with filmmakers Where: GLAD Auditorium, 2222 Laverna Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90041 NOTE: SEATING IS LIMITED Pictured: Artist rendering of Michelle above screening details. Below are pictured Atin Mehra, Director/DP/Editor; Mae Thornton Mehra, Producer; Delbert Whetter, Executive Producer Summary: BEING MICHELLE is a feature length documentary film about a deaf woman with autism who survived incarceration and abuse, and now uses her artwork to depict the trauma she survived and heal from her past. See the trailer at www.beingmichelle.com

Our award-winning Being Michelle documentary will be showing at the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness, Inc. (GLAD) this coming May 17, 2025, followed by a Q&A panel with our deaf & hearing documentary filmmakers.
Trailer available at www.beingmichelle.com

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