10% of tbe general populace is hearing impaired. Of those a good percentage are helped with hearing devices. To bolster the number of people who are hearing impaired, some folks like to address those who are elderly who are 25-50% impaired at some point. They also have hearing device help, many of them. Those that don’t, many are new-comers to being hearing impaired, and don’t know sign language anyway.
While I don’t necessarily have a problem with signing, sometimes the signers are distracting.
In that one angle shot provided here, the signer stood between the guy with the camera and the governor.
I’d hate to think the signer called so much attention to himself, that folks were distracted and not concentrating on the important information the governor was presenting.
Even being distracted for a few moments might cause someone to miss dire information specific to their location, so this isn’t something to be dismissed as a problem.
It can be a problem.
That’s a very good point. The cameraman should have positioined himself in front of the governor, and not to the side like that.