Advacation: Cruise edition – requesting real-time captioning
Photo cred: https://www.carnival.com/cruise-ships/carnival-sensation.aspx
In the dead heat of summer, my friend casually mentioned on a fb chat that she and her family were going to be celebrating New Year’s Eve on a cruise ship. I was intrigued and then elated when I saw the “…” (indicating active typing) on our chat followed by “The invitation is there if y’all can go.” A quick check with hubby and we (somewhat impulsively) decided that we would join them!
I hadn’t been on a cruise since I was 16 and my family had never gone so this would be an entirely new experience for us. On the other hand, my friend, Lisa, had been on several cruises with different members of her family and was well-versed on the ins and outs of cruise life. Lisa and I are both late-deafened – I am ASL-fluent and she knows a handful of signs. We are both excellent spoken language communicators and rely on visual information and lipreading in difficult listening situations. This meant that in terms of accommodations to access any audible information such as public announcements or hear (and UNDERSTAND!) people on stage for a [...]