Things I didn't know before my conversation with Michelle: The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) wasn't around until 1990, and it really isn't very good, it seems to do the bare minimum it needs for people with disabilities to survive, and not so much to thrive. T-Mobile offered texting as a communication option for the hard of hearing years before it hit the mainstream and became our main form of communication. There's just so much about D/deaf culture that I was unaware of, and I'm super stoked that I got to talk with Michelle Richardson to make myself more aware of what life is like for the hard of hearing.

Something that is neat, and not so neat as I learn talking to Michelle, is that YouTube offers automatically generated Closed Captioning for the hard of hearing. It's why I'm striving to make sure I upload a video version of my podcast for every audio version. I mean...it's literally the least I can do to make things more accessible for the hard-of-hearing community.

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Intro: Le Gang - I'm up in the clouds

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Outro: CrabX - Breeze

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