Access & Etiquette
You should avoid petting or feeding a working guide dog because doing so causes this.
What is a distraction?
This reading and writing system uses raised dots felt with the fingertips.
What is braille?
In many Deaf spaces, waving both hands overhead is a visual way to show this appreciation.
What is applause?
This DeafBlind author and activist famously learned with teacher Anne Sullivan.
A person with low vision may use this tool to make printed words look larger.
What is a magnifier?
When speaking through an interpreter, address this person directly.
Who is the Deaf person you are communicating with?
This technique uses handshapes to spell words letter by letter.
What is fingerspelling?
These recorded books offer a way to enjoy literature by listening.
What are audiobooks?
This French inventor created the raised-dot reading and writing system named after him.
Who is Louis Braille?
These on-screen words identify dialogue and important sounds in a video.
What are captions?
Before deciding how to communicate with a DeafBlind person, ask about this individual preference.
What is their preferred communication method?
In this form of signing, a person receives signs by feeling the signer’s hands.
What is tactile sign language?
Using a capital D in “Deaf” often signals belonging to this community with a shared language and tradition
What is Deaf culture?
Helen Keller graduated from this college in 1904.
What is Radcliffe College?
This software makes computer or phone content accessible through synthesized speech or braille output.
What is a screen reader?
A host should wait until a DeafBlind player has received the entire interpreted clue before starting this timed part of the game.
What is the answer period or the response clock?
A traditional braille cell contains this many possible dot positions.
What is six?
Although sometimes mistaken for a language, braille is this type of system that can represent many languages.
What is a reading and writing system?
This 1988 protest at Gallaudet University demanded that a Deaf person lead the university.
What is Deaf President Now?
This electronic device uses moving pins to make digital text readable by touch.
What is a refreshable braille display?
Designing a game with multiple ways to receive clues and give answers puts this principle into practice.
What is accessibility?
This communication system uses touch signals on the body to share environmental and social information, such as someone entering a room
What is Haptics or haptic communication?
This DeafBlind-led movement and language centers touch, direct connection, and shared experience.
What is Protactile?
This man became Gallaudet University’s first Deaf president following the 1988 protest.
Who is I. King Jordan?
A Deaf ASL user can use this telephone service to communicate with a hearing caller through a sign-language interpreter on video.
What is Video Relay Service (VRS)?