Marlee Matlin: Thanks and Please Make a Video?

by Clara Long · 2011-07-25 15:45:00 UTC
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If you're my age or older you may know her from her Academy Award winning performance in Children of a Lesser God? Maybe you know her from her feisty character in the West Wing, Joey Lucas?  Or for the younger ones out there for her roles in Desperate Housewives or the L-Word?

Marlee Matlin deserves some thanks from the Change.org human rights community.   Last week, Marlee wrote on her twitter account:

Dear Netflix. Nevermind about the price hike. When are you going to start captioning your streaming content? Fail, big time.

That's what we're saying!  Netflix , the internet's biggest provider of streaming online television and movies provides subtitling for only 30 percent of its online content.  Worse, while it is possible to see a list of all of the subtitled content on the site, but users cannot search within that content.

That's why Sebastian St. Troy, a consumer rights activist in Texas started a petition asking the video company to simply enhance the search functionality on the website for the hard of hearing.   Sebastian is asking for one small step in toward equal access for the deaf and hard of hearing.  As of now over 5,000 people have signed the petition, but we have had no meaningful response from Netflix.

We'd like to ask you to thank Marlee for her support and ask her to take an additional action on our campaign.  Marlee, if you're reading this, you've been an amazing advocate for the deaf and hard of hearing and an online video of you supporting for Sebastian's petition would go a long way to getting Netflix's attention.

If you're not Marlee and you're reading this, sign on to your Twitter account and tweet this (or something similar):

Thanks @MarleeMatlin for supporting deaf rights on Netflix.  Can you please make a video supporting the campaign? http://chn.ge/qeOwl7

Clara Long is a member of the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School.

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