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Today, the White House announced that it will have American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters at all daily press briefings. In September 2020, @NAD1880 with @arnoldporter won a court order that set the stage for this... 1/
The NAD challenged the Trump White House's refusal to provide ASL interpreters for any COVID-19 related press briefings. In August, we argued the case ... 2/ https://twitter.com/meganmineiro/status/1298713355314593798?s=20
In September, we won, with the court ordering the White House to provide ASL interpreters at all COVID-19 related press briefings...3/ https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1308862460892516355?s=20
In November, the first ASL interpreters appeared. A historic moment....4/ https://twitter.com/ianshoffman/status/1327368383461994503?s=20
Today, @PressSec announced that the White House will be providing ASL interpreters for all daily press briefings (not just related to COVID-19)... 5/
The ASL interpreters are in-frame (as opposed to in-person) and they can be seen on the official White House website ( http://wh.gov/live ) and WH social media accounts (FB, YouTube, Periscope)... 6/
There is more work to be done, but this is a great day for inclusion and access for the Deaf community. 7/7
