16 Facts About Rikki Poynter

Rikki Poynter was born on July 16,1991 and is a deaf YouTuber and activist.

Rikki Poynter began as a beauty vlogger and is a lifestyle vlogger with a focus on Deaf awareness, accessibility, and the importance of closed captioning.

Rikki Poynter describes her deafness as severe in her right ear and moderate to severe in her left ear.

Rikki Poynter was raised orally under a German deaf mother and an American hearing father in a mainstream environment and attended mainstream schools from K-12, which she described as difficult due to a lack of accommodation.

Rikki Poynter continued creating beauty videos for the next four years, but then decided to use her platform to spread awareness on Deaf issues because she wanted to create content that was beneficial and meaningful.

In 2014, Rikki Poynter uploaded her first video speaking about her deafness.

Rikki Poynter rebranded her YouTube channel, which now covers a variety of topics relating to Deaf culture, Deaf issues, closed captioning, and other lifestyle topics.

Rikki Poynter's main focus is to fight for a higher quantity and quality of closed captioning on YouTube videos.

In 2014, Rikki Poynter began making videos about this issue and advocating it on her social media platforms.

Rikki Poynter's goals are to teach YouTubers about the importance of closed captions and to increase the number of creators that caption their content.

Rikki Poynter's efforts include sending emails and handwritten letters to popular YouTube stars to tell them about the challenges of the lack of captions for the Deaf community on YouTube and to give information on how they can caption their videos.

Rikki Poynter has contacted YouTube itself regarding improving their automatic captioning system.

Rikki Poynter's efforts have attracted attention by mainstream media, including ABC News, BBC News, and Huffington Post.

In 2015, Rikki Poynter gave a talk at Lycoming College about accessibility and deaf issues such as captioning, sign language access and police brutality.

Rikki Poynter is the social media specialist and blogger for Deaf Women in Film, a resource that supports deaf women in the film industry.

Rikki Poynter contributes video content to Ai-Media, a service that provides access to the world's content through live captioning, closed captions, transcripts and audio description.