If you are hosting someone who is deaf or hard of hearing at your house for dinner, a party or even Christmas — make sure you learn how to use your subtitles. Particularly if you are intending to watch something on the telly. You can prepare in advance by following…
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I have previously written about Zoom Fatigue and the difficulty of concentrating for hours and hours of video calls. However, it is also important to learn not to always press on and keep going until the point of exhaustion. It can have a real impact on well-being therefore it is important to…
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On July 15, 2021, Twitter announced the rollout of captions for voice tweets. We took your feedback and we’re doing the work. To improve accessibility features, captions for voice Tweets are rolling out today. Now when you record a voice Tweet, captions will automatically generate and appear. To view the…
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It has been interesting hearing people talk about “Zoom Fatigue” and the impact it has on their mental health and well-being and how draining and frustrating Zoom Calls are etc and how they are looking forward to “in-person” meetings and conversations again. While I experience Zoom Fatigue as well in…
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If you are in the legal profession you may have already seen this article. The article explains for those of you who may not have been following the development of the SQE in great detail (and even those of us who have) that frustratingly there are still barriers in place for…
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So far I’ve been staying away from Audio-Only Apps including Clubhouse. I’ve downloaded, had a brief play with it, but not really engaged yet after all — Audio-Only is just not worth the hassle for me personally. However, I was shocked to read in a Business Insider article that user Jurgen Donaldson…
Continue readingClubhouse suspended a blind man for providing a live transcript to help deaf people.
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As reported by Limping Chicken here the video conferencing app Zoom has announced that it plans to make automatic captions free and available to all users by the autumn. They really should have sorted it by now. Not only that, Autumn is still a long time for those of us who find…
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So they still haven’t managed to get the hang of subtitles/captions for people with hearing loss on Video Conferencing Platforms. Discovered another petition on Change via Twitter. Support the provision of free captions by signing the petition. Thanks. http://chng.it/QsNW4gYzvK
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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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