By Samantha in Entertainment, Activism | 0 Comments
Closed captioning…we love closed captioning. We need closed captioning!!
Increasingly, online video content is becoming integral to our lives streaming shows straight to our desktops and dvrs. Unfortunately, our current legislation does not require captioning to be included in this distribution. And so, it isn’t.
In fact, captioning availability is going backwards. Recently Disney/Pixar stripped their rental […]
By Samantha in Hearing Aids, Featured | 0 Comments
One word: Regulation. Here’s the scoop:
In 1977, the Hearing Aid Rule was passed by the Food and Drug Administration to set up boundaries of who can sell hearing aids. The rule was passed to protect consumers from aggressive sales people who were selling hearing aids to people that didn’t need them. In several reported cases, […]
By Samantha in Hearing Aids, Featured | 0 Comments
In July, 2009, Consumer Reports sent 12 people with hearing loss to buy multiple sets of hearing aids over six months. They found that two-thirds of the 48 devices purchased were either the wrong kind of hearing aid or not properly adjusted for the people buying them. Most of the aids were either turned up […]
