White House To Provide ASL Interpretation At Congressional Speech For First Time: Report

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6. Excellent!

I mean most, if not all "government" remarks, whether federal, state, or local, normally have had someone signing on the sidelines (and shown in a split-screen when broadcast) and much of that was implemented after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

This to me seems like a no duh!

(I know that there is closed-captioning going on with broadcasts)

I suppose since there are stenographers on the House/Senate floors doing transcriptions, they figured people could "wait" for the transcript but come on... I get that trying to do ASL in the middle of a regular floor proceeding would be a nightmare but for speeches that happen in Joint Sessions of Congress, there's no reason why that service couldn't have been provided.