Captioning: It’s Time for a Revolt

Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC
4 min readJun 6, 2019

What if every person who was deaf, Deaf, had hearing loss (plus those peoples’ friends and family) refused to do business with a company that didn’t caption its videos?

Cartoon rendition of dozens of various people of different genders, ethnicities, and ages protesting in the street

I saw an article recently, which identified strategies that business people who don’t want to caption videos should use to try and avoid it. Basically, it advocated strategies for business people to deliberately choose which allows them…

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Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC

LinkedIn Top Voice for Social Impact 2022. UX Collective Author of the Year 2020. Disability Inclusion SME. Sr Staff Accessibility Architect @ VMware.