Also to the OP - someone mentioned that you'd posted previously about accommodations so I took a peek at your earliest posts, from October 2009. I really hope you've evolved since then and have adjusted your perspective. I am not deaf, or Deaf (with a capital D), and I'm not "hard of hearing." I'm hearing impaired. I can hear people just fine. I just can't understand what they're saying unless I read their lips and they speak in a crisp, mid-range tone. If a person I can't understand speaks more loudly, I'll just hear really loud mumbling. That is not hard of hearing. It's an impairment, and it's what I have. You don't have to like that. You don't have to agree with it. But you don't get to tell me I don't have what I have.
In addition, if you don't consider being Deaf (with the capital D you prefer) to be a disability, then you should not expect any accommodations at all. Accommodations are to help people with disabilities.
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