I was reading this article – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/6524495.stm – about plans to install more “talking” CCTV cameras that barks order if someone did something a wee bit naughty but not worth involving the police, such as dropping a piece of litter.
What happens if its trying to “talk” to a deaf person? Will it pop up a wee TV screen to show the CCTV operator’s face for lipreading, or a signed instruction?
Hope it doesn’t become an offence to ignore CCTV orders in this nanny state country or we’re in big trouble! Not that it gives deaf people a licence to do whatever they like (although that seems to be the case when a deaf man was “too deaf” to face justice), but it’s hardly an accessible way of communicating with the public.
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We ought to demand loops, buried under the pavements. That should bugger up their budgets nicely
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