In podcast 95, Tiffiny is joined by inclusive travel expert, Scott Rains, a quadriplegic who’s been hired by tourism businesses and governments all around the world to teach them how they can become more universally accessible.
In this fascinating interview, Tiffiny and Scott talk about everything, his injury in 1972 from a tumor on his spinal cord and how he retooled his career to become an inclusive travel expert. They also discuss accessibility in places he’s visited (and he’s been on every continent, except Antarctica), including a country he’s visiting often right now, Brazil.
Listen below. Run time is 50 minutes.
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Links:
- Visit Scott’s blog: Rolling Rains
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There are hundreds millions of deaf/hoh people who cannot “listen” to podcasts that are not accompanied with transcripts. Would you please provide a transcript? Thanks!
We will try to figure this out! Right now its just little old me producing the show, and I don’t have the ability to manually transcribe the shows because of my hands/too tiring. And we don’t have the funds to hire a transcriptionist. Is there a software that will do this?
There’s no “free” software to create transcripts and captions – all needs to be done by human. You would need to hire someone to transcribe audio. There’s a woman who has a CP (cerebral palsy) who types only with one left thumb, yet she manages to write blogs and also add transcripts to audio, so no excuses. For more information, please check http://www.audio-accessibility.com for examples and best practices. Thanks!