For deaf and hard of hearing people, social events, general office chit-chat and conversation and networking events can mean feeling left out, everyone around you seems to be enjoying themselves and engaging in conversations. Here is my list of tips to help stop this from happening and to help others…
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You may have having more meetings via Zoom or Teams, but are you also having more video calls when having one-on-one calls? If you are great. If not, why not start having more video-calls instead of just picking up the phone and dialling the number. Why not use Zoom, Teams,…
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Zoom has finally integrated free, live captions with any plan. Read more about how to enable free zoom captions here.
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We have previously written about how to have more inclusive virtual meetings (read the post here). Today we are adding a couple of more tips to the list so that you can ensure that virtual meetings are inclusive. to be continued…?
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At work we have a lot of “mindfulness” and meditation sessions both in person (pre-pandemic) and online. I find these sessions incredibly frustrating as you are encouraged to close your eyes and of course once I close my eyes, I can’t hear what is being said. If I keep my…
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Forbes have published an article entitled 5 New Year’s Resolutions For People With Disabilities. I’ve got to be honest, I saw that title and thought that it a bit stupid, how would disabled people all make the same 5 resolutions. However, upon reading the article — it did inspire me to…
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