UK football fan sues over lack of closed captioning at stadium

[ukvols]

If he wins this suit, it would seem that every school would have to start using captioning.

Kentucky fan suing school over lack of closed captioning at football games GoVolsXtra

 

[gorockytop101]

Honestly, this sounds like something that could have been accomplished easily outside of court. How hard is it to put a line of text on a jumbotron?

EDIT: Saying the plaintiff should have given the school a chance to comply.

DOUBLE EDIT: I'll try reading the article next time.

 

[Co. Aytch]

effin lawsuits have made this whole country vanilla and P.C.

 

[McCat]

Frivolous.
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[Slydell]

Not frivolous to some with a hearing problem, I imagine.

 

[utvolpj]

does he really want to hear "and UT makes it 27 in a row over UK"

 

[OrangeWilly]

does he really want to hear "and UT makes it 27 in a row over UK"

 

[ZZBlueComet]

UK fan here, I would sue over the quality of football in Commonwealth before I'd sue over the quality of media.:rock:

 

[kdiddie]

He may not get CC, but UK could provide an ear piece and small house radio as a 'reasonable acommendation'

 

[OrangeDog]

Not frivolous to some with a hearing problem, I imagine.

huh?

 

[AshG]

Not frivolous to some with a hearing problem, I imagine.

QFT.

Depending on the range of hearing loss, this legal action could fall under the ADA as a reasonable accommodation. As someone who has lived with partial deafness for most of his life (now corrected thanks to a great surgeon) I can tell you from experience that it's stigmatic. If you're not a fully deaf signer, partial deafness is "just an annoyance" in others' eyes and puts you at the same status as the mostly-deaf grandpa you have to yell at to pass the peas but who then hands you the car keys instead. It's nice to be able to hear all of what's going on around me now (for the most part; it's much harder to tune out people who need to ****), but the years leading up to it were frustrating as hell.

 

[Escape Goat]

If he wins this suit, it would seem that every school would have to start using captioning.

Kentucky fan suing school over lack of closed captioning at football games GoVolsXtra

If I was at a Kentucky football game, I would want to be blind, as well as deaf.
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[Escape Goat]

Congrats on your new lease on life. Glad things have worked out well for you.

QFT.

Depending on the range of hearing loss, this legal action could fall under the ADA as a reasonable accommodation. As someone who has lived with partial deafness for most of his life (now corrected thanks to a great surgeon) I can tell you from experience that it's stigmatic. If you're not a fully deaf signer, partial deafness is "just an annoyance" in others' eyes and puts you at the same status as the mostly-deaf grandpa you have to yell at to pass the peas but who then hands you the car keys instead. It's nice to be able to hear all of what's going on around me now (for the most part; it's much harder to tune out people who need to ****), but the years leading up to it were frustrating as hell.

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[Slydell]

QFT.

Depending on the range of hearing loss, this legal action could fall under the ADA as a reasonable accommodation. As someone who has lived with partial deafness for most of his life (now corrected thanks to a great surgeon) I can tell you from experience that it's stigmatic. If you're not a fully deaf signer, partial deafness is "just an annoyance" in others' eyes and puts you at the same status as the mostly-deaf grandpa you have to yell at to pass the peas but who then hands you the car keys instead. It's nice to be able to hear all of what's going on around me now (for the most part; it's much harder to tune out people who need to ****), but the years leading up to it were frustrating as hell.

Absolutely, most with good hearing don't think about or understand what a loss of hearing is like.

 

[SURFSIDEBEACHVOL]

I'm sure they could use some sort of handheld device to provide this service.

 

[Slydell]

huh?

Meaning=If you have a hearing loss and can't hear well enough to follow what is going on, accommodating for that impairment would be great for the fan. Everyone doesn't have good hearing. I think CC would be great for those fans and allow them to enjoy the game more.:hi:

 

[therealUT]

Meaning=If you have a hearing loss and can't hear well enough to follow what is going on, accommodating for that impairment would be great for the fan. Everyone doesn't have good hearing. I think CC would be great for those fans and allow them to enjoy the game more.:hi:

I think there is merit to his argument regarding safety and emergency announcements; however, I do not see that he is legally entitled to anything more than just being able to see the game with the tickets he purchases (could see forcing institutions to publicly acknowledge, on their tickets and sales sites, that CC is not available for non-emergency announcements).

Should concert video feeds have closed captions on them?

 

[therealUT]

Meaning=If you have a hearing loss and can't hear well enough to follow what is going on, accommodating for that impairment would be great for the fan. Everyone doesn't have good hearing. I think CC would be great for those fans and allow them to enjoy the game more.:hi:

You can follow the game without having to hear it.

 

[Slydell]

You can follow the game without having to hear it.

Then, why do they broadcast it over the PA? I guess they could just not announce the game over the PA system and that would eliminate problems.

 

[Escape Goat]

Then, why do they broadcast it over the PA? I guess they could just not announce the game over the PA system and that would eliminate problems.

PA announcer (atleast at UT) is one of the best things about a live game. Yes I know you were being facetious.
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[Slydell]

PA announcer (atleast at UT) is one of the best things about a live game. Yes I know you were being facetious.
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Yep. I remember some experiments in the past where a few football and baseball games were broadcast on TV with no commentary. Only crowd noises. For obvious reasons, it didn't go well.

I just had a weird thought. What if there was no sound and no hand signals from the officials in sports? We're just so used to both.