Without subtitles, warnings about Hurricane Michael did not reach the disabled

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Without subtitles, warnings about Hurricane Michael did not reach the disabled







(Reuters) - When Marlee Matlin, an Oscar-winning deaf actress, turned to the Internet to watch a warning video about Hurricane Michael, she was quickly reminded that sign language interpreters are often removed from broadcast clips and the Hidden subtitles do not seem to exist online. 











FILE PHOTO: Search and rescue teams pass through the debris caused by Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Florida, USA. UU., October 11, 2018. REUTERS / Jonathan Bachman / Stock Photo





"There are 35 million people who are deaf and hard of hearing, and today it is surprising that there is not full access to them," he told Reuters through an interpreter on Friday in a telephone interview. 

Matlin drew attention to emergency communication failures with people with disabilities earlier in the week, when he posted on Twitter on Tuesday that the Weather Channel did not include the captions in reports about the coming storm. 

"Dear @weatherchannel, I wanted to share this video for the thousands of deaf and hard of hearing residents on the way to #HurricaneMichael, but unfortunately, it is NOT subtitled. Access to information is VITAL; It is a matter of life or death. Thank you, "wrote Matlin. 

The Weather Channel did not respond on Twitter and was not immediately available for comment. 









FILE PHOTO: members of the search and rescue team are seen next to the property damaged by Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Florida, USA. UU., October 11, 2018. REUTERS / Jonathan Bachman / Stock Photo



He noted that emergency notifications on life threatening tornado problems and delays in the New York City subway do not reach Americans with hearing loss due to the lack of integration of subtitles in public address systems. 

"There are not many of you, so it's not that important to us." That's what we feel, "said Matlin.  

"Everything is migrating to the internet. They are breaking news and you show the video of the website and it's just the clips. There are no subtitles. " 

Even when officials include signatories in their press conferences, viewers trying to catch up with online news later can not see them in edited video clips, he said.  

"When they show up to the mayor or the sheriff, there's always an interpreter next to them, but they show a clip and then it disappears," Matlin said. 

Warning and evacuating people with physical limitations from a rapidly moving hurricane requires extraordinary efforts, defenders and state officials said on Friday.  









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Many people with disabilities are low income, dependent on public transport and can not afford private transport or temporary accommodation. Those with physical limitations have difficulty preparing for storms, such as getting into homes and storing bottles of water. The more time they have to prepare for a storm, the better, but the rapid intensification of Hurricane Michael left thousands with no escape.  

The New England Journal of Medicine found that the "interruption of medical care" was the main cause of the 3,000 deaths caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. 

Prior to Hurricane Michael, medical treatments for chronic diseases, such as diabetes, asthma and hypertension, were sent in "hurricane-specific modules" to primary care centers near the path of the storm, said Andrew Schroeder, director of research and analysis of the non-profit organization Direct Alivio. Each emergency medical package contained enough medication to treat 100 patients for 72 hours, he said. 

It remains to be seen if those modules have helped, said the president of the Association of Community Health Centers of Florida, Andrew Behrman, because many of the health centers in the path of the storm lost power and were directing patients to shelters. 

"There is damage to several of those facilities and in one of them, the roof is gone, so everything inside will not be usable," he said.  

The Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities (APD), which serves some 3,000 people with developmental disabilities impacted by Michael, holds twice-a-day phone conferences to communicate with people during emergencies, he said. the spokeswoman Melanie Etters. But without the telephone service, people with disabilities have no way of contacting specialists or authorities.  

"We had to move quickly and start communicating with people quickly to make sure people took action because they moved very fast to the coast," he said. 





Report by Gabriella Borter and Barbara Goldberg in New York; Additional reporting by Devika Krishna Kumar in Panacea, Florida; Edited by Lisa Shumaker and James Dalgleish





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