Expert Resources: deaf
These are the items that relate to deaf found on the AbilityNet website. They may be factsheets, webinars, news stories, blog posts or reports.
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Sarah Botterill | 28 Jul 2021A deaf woman has won a high court ruling against the UK government over the lack of British Sign Language interpreting at official Coronavirus briefings in England.
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Sarah Botterill | 26 Jul 2021This FREE webinar took place on 08 September at 1 pm BSTHow can technology help make the world more accessible to people who are Deaf or hard of hearing? We heard from a panel of experts, including speakers from Lloyds Bank, Signly, Microsoft and the RNID (National Hearing Loss Charity). The...
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Robin Christopherson | 21 Apr 2021The hugely popular video conferencing and calling platform, Zoom, will be providing automatic 'closed captioning' (subtitling) for all free accounts in the autumn - but individuals can request early access by filling out a simple form.
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Adam Tweed | 25 Feb 2020When Mick Ebeling of Not Impossible Labs considered the way D/deaf and hard of hearing people experience music; the monotonous thump of the subwoofer, he thought it was absurd. Working with jazz musician and songwriter Mandy Harvey who lost her hearing at University, Not Impossible Labs created...
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Alex.Barker | 16 Jan 2020AbilityNet provides a selection of top tips for adjustments that can help create an accessible workplace.
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Robin Christopherson | 12 Nov 2018Using machine learning to recognise the delicate nuances of British Sign Language (BSL) isn't easy, but now the University of Surrey is hard at work cracking the challenge with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
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Robin Christopherson | 03 Oct 2016A team of biomedical engineers is using wearable tech to translate sign language into spoken or written text.
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Alex.Barker | 16 Aug 2016If you are one of the over 900,000 people with hearing loss in the UK there are some really useful functions built into technology.
