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From YouTube: Closed Captions Ordinance Signing
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Mayor Wu signed an ordinance requiring businesses to use closed captioning on their public-facing TVs.
C
Members
of
our
commission,
who
would
like
to
join
or
say
a
word
and
I
know
for
sure
I'm
going
to
pass
it
over
to
commissioner
makash,
who
has
been
a
driving
force
behind
so
much
of
this,
but
I
just
want
to
start
out
with
some
thank
yous.
This
is
a
big
deal
whenever
we
get
the
opportunity
to
sit
and
and
put
pen
to
paper
on
Words
and
ordinances
that
will
change
how
business
operates
in
the
city
and
how
people
feel
connected
to
each
other
and
our
community.
C
Of
course,
I
want
to
start
with
our
Advocates
and
community
members
who
are
in
the
room.
Thank
you
for
your
leadership
across.
So
many
different
issues
and
areas
of
challenge
for
the
city
so
proud
to
work
alongside
you,
I
want
to
recognize
those
who
first
brought
this
forward
before
in
the
council.
Our
lead
sponsor
city
council,
president
Ed
Flynn.
C
Thank
you
for
your
leadership,
alongside
co-sponsors,
counselors,
rootsie,
luigien
and
Julia
Mejia
as
the
initial
filers,
and
then,
of
course,
co-sponsors,
City,
councilor,
Aaron,
Murphy
and
Kenzie
Bach
as
well,
who
made
sure
that
it
got
over
the
finish
line,
as
mentioned
our
commission,
commissioner.
For
the
mayor's
Commission
of
her
persons
with
disabilities,
commissioner
Kristen
McCosh
has
served
the
city
for
many
years.
C
C
A
new
member
Charlie
Kim
is
a
new
member,
Carl
Richardson
a
long
time.
Member
and
Ada
coordinator
for
the
state
house,
as
well
as
member
of
the
FCC
disability
advisory
committee
and
I,
also
want
to
recognize
Darian
Gambrell
executive
director
of
deaf
pink
a
number
of
years
ago.
On
the
city
council.
We
worked
for
many
months
to
pass
the
city's
first
ever
Communications
access,
ordinance
and
Boston
took
a
step
on
that
front.
C
We
want
to
ensure
that
in
spaces
where
there
are
any
public-facing
TVs
that
closed
captioning
will
be
required
as
a
way
to
guarantee
Communications
access
for
all
from
restaurants
and
bars,
Banks
and
gyms.
This
will
help
improve
Communications
access
across
all
of
our
communities
and
Empower
our
residents
with
disabilities.
C
We
know
that
we
have
much
work
to
do
still
in
truly
being
a
city
for
everyone
here
in
Boston,
but
we
look
forward
to
continuing
to
take
steps
big
and
small
every
day,
so
that
we
are
moving
in
the
right
direction
and
doing
so
following
your
lead.
So
thank
you
so
much
for
being
here,
I
want
to
pass
it
over
to
my
Council
colleagues
to
say
a
word.
D
I
want
to
again
say
thank
you
to
Mayor
Wu
and
a
special
thank
you
again
to
commissioner
McCosh
way
of
great
admiration
and
respect
for
because
of
her
commitment
to
making
sure
that
Justice
in
the
city
is
given
to
is
given
to
everyone,
and
she
taught
me
about
disability
rights
and
I
wanted
to
work
with
her
I
wanted
to
work
with
me.
Well,
my
colleagues
in
government
and
just
honored
to
be
here.
Thank
you
very
much.
A
Fun,
it's
great
to
be
here:
Erin,
Murphy,
City,
councilor
at
large
and
I'm
just
happy
and
excited
that
we're
all
here
together.
Thank
you
to
the
commissioner
and
everyone
all
the
advocates
in
the
disability
space
and
thank
you
to
the
interpreters
for
making
sure
that
everyone
is
following
along
as
a
mother
of
a
deaf
child
and
a
special
education
teacher
for
over
two
decades.
I
know
exactly
like
deeply
how
we
have
to
make
sure
that
everyone
feels
that
they're
valued
and
that
something
to
me
seems
so
simple
should
just
be
law
now
right.
A
It
should
make
sure
that,
when
we're
in
spaces
around
the
city,
this
is
a
message
we're
sending
that
we
respect
and
you
your
dignity
matters
to
us.
So
thank
you
for
being
here
and
I'm
a
strong
advocate,
so
please
reach
out
if
there's
anything
in
the
future,
because
I
know
that
this
Council
cares
about
making
sure-
and
this
mayor
cares
about
making
sure
that
everyone
feels
that
this
city
works
and
belongs
to
you.
So
thank
you
very
much.
E
E
We
always
have
to
think
about
how
it's
going
to
benefit
everyone.
Sometimes
it's
really
hard
to
hear
in
our
restaurants
and
in
our
bars
and
in
in
places
of
public
accommodation.
So
this
is
a
great
step,
I'm
grateful
for
you
know
when
council
president
Flynn
put
this
before
the
body
as
a
chair
of
the
civil
rights
committee
was
really
important
to
me
that
I
lean
into
this
work,
and
so
the
working
session
learning
from
Carl
the
Ada
coordinator
at
the
State
House
was
was
terrific
also
to
to
work
alongside
commissioner
mccaution.
E
The
leadership
that
you've
displayed
in
this
this
space
is
really
important,
so
I'm
grateful
for
all
the
work
that
we
can
do
here
on
the
city,
to
bring
the
margins
really
into
the
fore
and
to
really
follow
your
lead.
So
thank
you.
I
can
I
look
forward
to
the
work
that
we
we
have
to
do
together
and
I
continue
to
and
I
look
forward
to
continuing
to
learn
from
from
from
the
community
so
that
we
can
improve
city
systems
for
everyone.
Thank
you.
F
I
want
to
Echo
all
the
thanks
to
the
all
commissioner
makash
and
the
whole
board,
and
definitely
our
president
councilor
Flynn,
who
really
championed
this
on
the
council,
not
just
this
term
but
last
term
as
well.
Sometimes
it
takes
a
couple
terms
to
make
a
good
thing
happen,
as
has
been
said,
and
so
it's
exciting
to
see
it
happening.
F
G
The
issue
of
captioning
was
really
raised
as
an
issue
of
equity
in
the
early
days
of
the
pandemic,
because
we
have
an
Advisory,
Board
member
who's,
deaf
and
uses
sign
language,
and
he
would
be
out
and
about
when
nobody
knew
what
was
happening.
There
were
different
Public,
Health
emergencies
being
issued.
He
would
be
at
a
hospital
waiting
room,
for
example,
and
not
be
able
to
hear
a
breaking
news
report,
so
he
couldn't
get
the
critical
information
that
everybody
needed.
So
he
raised
it
to
us
at
an
Advisory
board
meeting
and
he
did
some
research.
G
Other
cities
around
the
country
have
done
this,
and
one
state
has
implemented
this.
So
we
looked
at
it
and
we
really
understood
it
as
an
issue
of
equity
for
people
who
are
deaf
people
who
are
hard
of
hearing
older
people
losing
their
hearing
with
age
and,
like
Council
Louisiana,
said
really,
everybody
who's
in
a
crowded
restaurant
or
a
noisy
hospital.
G
Now
they
will
all
have
access
to
the
information
on
the
screen,
so
I'm
working
with
the
counselor
for
the
council
for
over
two
years
now
we're
really
thrilled
that
this
day
has
come
and
looking
forward
to
the
mayor
signing
it
officially,
my
office
will
be
working
with
the
small
businesses
and
institutions
throughout
the
city
to
ensure
this
ordinance
is
implemented
just
to
give
some
clarity
on
the
actual
ordinance
it
is
in
effect
now.
So
we
expect
businesses
to
come
into
compliance.
G
Nobody
needs
to
purchase
a
new
TV.
There
is
no
cost
to
this.
Nobody
needs
to
produce
captions.
The
only
requirement
is
that
if
you
have
a
TV
that
faces
the
public
that
you
turn
the
closed
captions
feature
on
and
that
like
I
said
that
will
allow
access
to
people
who
really
are
marginalized,
and
it
also
takes
the
onus
off
people
to
have
to
ask
for
captions,
because
some
deaf
people
who
use
sign
language
don't
use
verbal
communication.
Older
people
may
not
know
who
to
ask
if
they're
in
a
restaurant
or
a
bar.
G
C
Foreign
and
they
want
to
recognize
also
a
few
other
key
city
leaders
who
are
who
have
been
involved
and
have
been
supportive
of
the
Outreach
process
and
will
be
into
implementation,
Emily,
Shea,
I'm
sure
of
our
eight
strong
commission.
Thank
you
so
much
you
do.
We
know
that
key
part
of
this
will
be
the
the
getting
the
word
out
and
how
the
city
is
modeling
this
and
thank
you
so
much
to
our
CIO
for
the
city
of
Garces
and
fifth
Chief
of
Staff
Curry
Jordan
for
your
work
on
this
as
well.
C
H
So
good
good
evening,
everybody
I
am
just
blind,
but
I
haven't
always
been
deafblind.
I
grew
up
party
here
and
I
didn't
lose
my
vision
until
I
was
in
my
30s,
so
I
am
a
until
until
I
was
about
40.
I
use
captions,
and
when
I
was
four
years
old
I
actually
went
to
Boston
School
for
the
Deaf
and
a
note
that
was
in
the
early
70s
almost
50
years
ago
and
another
day,
captioning
didn't
exist
and
at
first
I
didn't
really
know
how
to
talk.
H
I
didn't
couldn't
really
communicate
with
my
siblings
I
didn't
watch
TV
with
my
family
and
but
on
Friday
afternoon.
The
Death
School
would
let
class
out
early,
and
we
would
all
go
to
the
auditorium
to
watch
movies,
that
the
Department
of
Education
would
land
the
school
with
subtitles
and
it
was
because
of
those
subtitles,
but
I
am
convinced.
H
H
After
being
four
years
old
during
the
pandemic,
as
a
member
of
the
Federal
Communications,
Commission
I
thought
firsthand
the
complaint
that
came
in
from
the
deaf
and
hard
of
hearing
community
that
they
did
not
have
act,
that
the
critical
news
and
information
such
as
medical
information
I
mean
people's
lives,
would
take.
There
was
also
a
some
a
presidential
election
going
on
at
the
time.
H
People
wanted
to
act
that
the
political
information,
so
they
could
be
informed
on
what
decisions
to
make
and
there
were
a
lot
of
critical
news
and
information
being
met,
and
we
thought
firsthand
how
more
important
quote
Captain
into
the
deaf
and
Hardy
Union
Community.
But
not
only
is
it
critical
it's
just
so
that
you
can
hang
out
at
the
water
cooler
and
know
what's
going
on.
If
you
want
The
Tonight
Show
and
you
can
throw
to
your
colleague
hey.
Did
you
hear
that
funny
joke
on
TV
last
night?
H
I
Hello,
everyone,
my
name,
is
Juan
Carlos
Ramirez,
Tapia
I
am
originally
from
Peru
and
I've
been
living
in
Boston
for
over
15
years.
So
I
just
wanted
to
express
my
gratitude
to
Mayor
Wolf,
the
city
councils,
the
commission
and
all
the
board
members
and
collaborators.
One
thing
that
is
always
important
and
I
think
it's
very
characteristic
of
us.
Humans
is
communication.
Without
communication
we
don't
have
the
ability
to
learn
from
each
other.
We
don't
have
the
ability
to
understand
each
other.
So
I
think
this
is
key.
I
It's
so
important
for
all
of
us
that
sometimes
don't
have
access
to
received
information,
as
we
have
heard
before.
Even
for
me,
sometimes
that
I
feel
like
I'm
able
to
communicate
in
English.
It
has
helped
to
have
closed
caption,
because
it's
allowed
me
to
understand
more
much
better
everything
that
I
see
everywhere.
It
helps
for
all
of
us
also
who
are
interested
in
learning
the
language,
especially
when
we
are
facing
some
barriers.
Having
that
little
eight
there,
it's
so
important
and
again
so
my
gratitude
to
all
the
collaborators.
C
E
H
H
G
G
So
the
question
was:
what
happens
if
a
business
or
other
entity
doesn't
come
into
compliance
with
this
ordinance?
So
we
always
like
to
say
in
my
office
that
we're
not
the
Ada
police.
We
don't
really
have
enforcement
capability.
We
really
work
on
compliance,
so
this
is
going
to
be
a
collaborative
effort.
If
we
do
receive
news
that
a
certain
restaurant
or
bar
is
not
in
compliance
will
reach
out
to
them
to
work
with
them.
One-On-One
and
really
just
talk
about
the
way
to
do
it.
G
Try
to
figure
out
if
there's
a
reason
why
they
haven't
done
it
and
really
support
them
with
we're
producing
a
tool
kit
with
some
tips
on
enabling
caption
talking
about
the
reason
for
it
and
all
the
benefits
for
it
that
we
actually
hope
it
will
increase
business.
So
if
someone
isn't
in
compliance
after
six
months
to
a
year,
then
we
can
work
with
the
city's
licensing
board,
but
that
would
be
a
last
last
result.
J
G
Yes,
that's
a
really
good
point
because,
as
Shaman
said,
when
we
had
the
daily
press
conferences
at
the
time
with
mayor
Walsh,
we
were
able
to
get
ASL
interpreters
for
100
days,
the
first
100
days
of
the
pandemic,
and
it
was
very
successful.
However,
people
who
lose
their
hearing
with
age,
they
don't
necessarily
know
ASL,
like
think
of
a
grandmother
who's
slowly,
losing
her
hearing
she's,
not
all
of
a
sudden
going
to
go
out
and
learn.
American
Sign
Language,
it's
a
complicated
language.
It's
it's
an
actual
language
with
its
own
grammar
structure
and
vocabulary.
G
So
it's
not
an
easy
thing
to
acquire.
So
even
when
we
have
ASL,
it's
not
universally
accessible,
captions
is
really
universally
accessible
for
everybody.
As
Juan
Carlos
said
people
who
speak
different
languages,
the
other
demographics
that
we've
mentioned-
and
it's
just
a
really
good
tool
to
enable
communication.
G
So
we're
working
with
our
city
departments,
small
businesses,
will
work
with
main
streets.
The
office
of
Neighborhood,
Services
age,
strong
and
we'll
have
them
get
the
word
out
to
their
contacts.
We'll
also
be
doing
a
letter
to
all
the
businesses
in
the
city.
Just
hey.
Did
you
know
that
this
ordinance
was
passed,
we'll
help
you
come
into
compliance?
If
you
have
questions
you
can
reach
out
to
us
and
we're
also
planning
to
do
a
zoom
webinar,
probably
at
the
beginning
of
February,
we'll
really
roll
the
Outreach
out
after
the
holidays.