In general, I'm happy to see ASL videos without captioning. I don't think everything has to be accessible to people who don't sign.
But certain pieces of information really need to be out there. I want to see deaf schools survive. I want parents to understand how good they can be for their deaf children. I want as many people as possible in society at large to understand what a great thing deaf schools can be, and to support their survival in a political sense. So I feel like that message needs to go out to everyone, including people who don't sign (for the politically-motivated reason: there are so *many* people who don't sign).
Personally, I enjoyed watching the video, because I'm always looking for receptive practice, plus I thought it was a good message. And captions can be annoying when someone is signing: when you express a signed message in English, you change it, and I'd rather be able to focus on the original message in its original language. (No offense to the wonderful terps out there. I don't mean that the meaning is compromised, just that I value nuances in language.) I don't like to see the English and get the message before I've had a chance to try to understand the signing. So if I just focus on my own personal interests, yeah, cool, no captions. But if I back away from myself for a minute, I think this would be a good video to make very accessible, because that could benefit the Deaf community.
I think that Joshua Beckman agrees - if you follow the link to youtube and read his comments, he says he's working with ASLized to create a voice-over and captioning.
Serenity girl: you might be right, but that 10% jumped out at me as the percentage of deaf children born to deaf parents. I've never seen stats on what percentage of hearing parents to deaf kids learn to sign. (Definitely not counting the very un-scientific poll I created about that here.)
