The National Association of Deaf Persons (NAD), in the United States, sued the White House on Monday. She criticizes the government for not offering simultaneous sign language translation for the information points organized since March on the health crisis linked to the coronavirus. The plaintiffs believe this is a violation of the First Amendment of the country's constitution as well as laws prohibiting discrimination against Americans with disabilities.
Official complaint procured by HuffPost says lack of translation deprives deaf and hard of hearing people of "access to critical and potentially life-saving information communicated by our nation's political and health officials during the Covid-19 pandemic ". The NAD had already sent a letter on March 18 alerting the White House to this situation.
They ask for an interpreter
The association also considers that the instant captioning of comments imposed by federal laws is not satisfactory. The device often contains errors, does not provide any context and is too difficult for some viewers to follow, especially for those translated for whom English is not their mother tongue. The complainants therefore claim the presence on the screen of an interpreter.
The NAD notes that unlike those of Donald Trump, the televised interventions of the governors of the 50 states and the mayors of the main cities of the country are accompanied by a translation into sign language. The 2014 US population census listed 3.4 million deaf Americans and 17 million residents claiming to experience "serious hearing difficulties," reports the American media.
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