May 292017
The Tories have angered the Deaf community by being the only political party not to produce their manifesto in BSL. The have stated that due to time constraints they are unable to produce one but told one Deaf voter “audio, easy read, and Braille formats will soon be available and we can also provide the Manifesto in large format.” (See limping chicken for more on this: https://limpingchicken.com/2017/05/24/conservative-party-tells-deaf-voter-that-manifesto-will-not-be-translated-into-bsl-due-to-time-constraints/).
Deaf BSL users and their supporters have had enough of being ignored and have taken to twitter and Facebook to post their questions to the Tories in BSL using the hashtag #MyBSLQuestion.
The first video was posted by Zoe McWhinney (@zoeymacey, Sunday 27th May) who made the point that they had time to produce a host of other accessible formats, it only takes a day to get a manifesto translated into BSL, yet they haven’t done it. Others reminded us that it was the Tories who had the most time to plan – given they were the ones who called the snap general election! Yet again, the Deaf community are being ignored.
If you are a BSL user please create and post your own video using #MyBSLQuestion.
