From:	John Hoopmann [
Sent:	Monday, 7 December 2009 5:05 PM
To:	disabdis
Subject:	Cinema access cutback on captioning

Dear Commissioner of Human Rights
 
Please do not allow any cutback of captioning for the Deaf Community, and also the Senior Aging 
population, many of whom develop severe deafness and find it easier to have captions with sound..
 
As a deaf patron of cinemas, I find that I cannot do without captions, so if captioning is cut back, that will 
take away one of the very few pleasures left for me that the hearing population take for granted.  
 
Imagine the ruckus it will cause if the cinemas decided that they no longer could afford to include sound with 
the picture.  How would the hearing group feel???
 
So, Commissioner, do not allow the removal of one of the few pleasures I have in going outside my home.
 
Thank you,
 
Rev John Hoopmann
Deaf Pastor to the Deaf Community
Adelaide Deaf Community Church  (Royal SA Deaf Society)
262 South Tce
Adelaide  SA  5000