FRANCE Beautiful new web site for the Deaf

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
April 5, 2006

Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod from French Switzerland wrote:
> you should also have a look at the site:www.pisourd.ch (site for deaf
> information on health...) and also www.signes.ch (the TV programm  
> for the
> deaf)...

Very nice sites too, Anne-Claude! Especially the www.pisourd.ch,  
which is a little more visual. The reason I mentioned the French web  
site is that is starts out with Sign Language from the very beginning  
and is not requiring anyone to know how to read and write a spoken  
language...because the signing begins immediately to explain how to  
use the web site in Sign Language...charming and practical...attached  
is a screen capture to show you what I mean...the man in the bubble  
is explaining how to use the site...

Explaining how to use the web in Sign Language was something our own  
Deaf Action Committe for SignWriting did years ago...we actually have  
some video footage that was never used where Butch, Cindy, Denny,  
Kevin (all Deaf) and yes...can you believe? me...ha!...we are on  
camera telling people in ASL (and in my ASL-with-a-hearing-accent),  
how to use a web site...

We said something like:

Welcome to the SignWriting Web Site. See those buttons over there to  
the right? Push on the first button to go to lessons. Push on the  
second button to go to Library and so forth...the idea was that we  
would open our web site with that video footage...

That was back in 1995! I was thinking ahead of my time, because most  
people did not have personal computers or web sites at that time, and  
I was not skilled enough at web design, in 1995, to do what the  
French web site is doing today...nor was technology ready for video- 
related web sites...so that is why I was excited about this new  
French web site and I wonder if I shouldn't create a SignWriting web  
site with that old video footage in ASL...we will see...I can try an  
experiment to show you what I mean...

Here is the French web site

www.Websourd.org


PS. We are working on captioning videos in SignWriting now, so  
someday the video could be accompanied, technically, with a  
SignWriting captioned version..smile...for the future...


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