A National Trans Holiday, Today Is.

A national trans holiday, today is.

Attention MaxFun fans!

As you may or may not know, despite having a huge audience base, MaxFun doesn’t currently provide transcripts for its shows.

Transcripts are necessary for many people. Without them, whole disabled populations don’t have access to entire genres of entertainment (in this case, most podcasts). 

That’s where you can help!

Contact Jesse Thorn and request that MaxFun start providing transcripts for their shows!

You can do that either by emailing Jesse at jesse@maximumfun.org or by filling out the contact form on maxfun’s site. (Just select “contact Jesse personally” as the category). You can either write your own message, or feel free to use the template below:

I’m contacting you today with some accessibility concerns. Across the board, there aren’t transcripts provided for MaxFun shows. Transcripts benefit deaf and hard of hearing people, as well as neurodivergent folks, people with audio processing disorders, people learning English as a second language, and the list goes on. Without transcripts, these folks are simply shut out from whole mediums, unfortunately including most podcasts.

Disabled people should not bear the responsibility of making the world accessible for them. That’s why it’s so important that accessibility is built into a creation from the start. It’s why we need able-bodied people to care about accessibility so that the burden is not put on disabled folks.

I really hope you will seriously reconsider this, look into cost-effective options and do everything you can to make your network an accessible place.

(and feel free to customize that however you want!)

He’s also on tumblr, @jessethorn so you can reach out to him that way if you’d prefer!

Please also reblog this post so we can get the word out!

Thanks for being an awesome accessibility advocate, you rock and ily.

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