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.

  • New hearing aid feature unmuffles voices of masked speakers

    Robin Christopherson | 18 Feb 2022
    The new EarGo 6 uses smart technology to improve understanding when someone’s voice is muffled by a mask.

  • 9 Useful apps for people who are D/deaf or have hearing loss

    Claudia.Cahalane | 02 Feb 2022
    There are multiple communication options used by people who are D/deaf or who have hearing loss. And, in the last five years, advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) have opened further options. In this blog, we explore some of the latest tech options for communication, leisure and education...

  • Compensation for lack of BSL at Covid briefing

    Sarah Botterill | 28 Jul 2021
    A 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.

  • Hearing Assistive Technology

    Sarah Botterill | 26 Jul 2021
    This 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...

  • Zoom now offers automatic subtitles, on request, for free accounts

    Robin Christopherson | 21 Apr 2021
    The 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.

  • Music: Not Impossible for the hard of hearing

    Adam Tweed | 25 Feb 2020
    When 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...

  • Training content should be accessible to all

    Alex.Barker | 16 Jan 2020
    AbilityNet provides a selection of top tips for adjustments that can help create an accessible workplace.

  • University of Surrey working on world's first British Sign Language translation Artificial Intelligence

    Robin Christopherson | 12 Nov 2018
    Using 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.

  • Wearable tech that interprets sign language

    Robin Christopherson | 03 Oct 2016
    A team of biomedical engineers is using wearable tech to translate sign language into spoken or written text.

  • Top tips on hearing loss and computing

    Alex.Barker | 16 Aug 2016
    If you are one of the over 900,000 people with hearing loss in the UK there are some really useful functions built into technology.