Listening ACCESSability

Live Captioning for Everyone

Ok, I promise, I’ll get to Live Captions in just a second, but first a quick update… We’ve been busy! It’s been the summer and Tracey and I are both educators. I travelled around Europe and Canada with my family, while Tracey spent time closer to home. However, we certainly haven’t been sat around, and…
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How I love the sound of sweet nothings in my ear!

I’m not a hopeless romantic by any means, but everything becomes clearer and way more comfortable when someone speaks into my ear. I immediately am more confident, relaxed and poised to hear more of what they have to say… Before you start getting steamy thoughts, I’m referring to when someone uses my trusty Remote Microphone!…
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How Aware Are you?

Deaf Awareness Week 2023 How d/Deaf aware are you? Consider these guiding questions to get you thinking: What does a d/Deaf person look like? How do they smell? When do they shower? Where do d/Deaf people live? Who is more likely to have d/Deaf children? Intrigued? I’ve been told many a time “Wow! You don’t…
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Accessible Media is Everyones Responsibility

When we browse the internet we are bombarded with digital media, whether it be in the format of pictures, videos or soundbites. As time progresses, we are inundated with more and more media. This media should be becoming more and more accessible and yet, unfortunately it isn’t. If anything, it is increasingly inaccessible. When the…
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The Future of Assistive Listening with Bluetooh Auracast

Over the years we have seen many different methods of assistive listening systems in public spaces, these vary in technology and have seen some more popular than others, but now there is a new player in town. The Most Popular Option T-Coil or Telecoils work in two parts, there is an antenna in the hearing…
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Getting Connected in the Classroom with Assistive Listening Devices

We’ve been hard at work to bring you a set of resources which will make it quick and easy to connect assistive listening devices to the tools that are used in the classroom. We know that getting started with tools like the Digimaster is easy, but connecting devices such as the touchscreen microphone to a…
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World Hearing Day 2023

Today marks World Hearing Day, and we reached out to some friends and colleagues to find out what hearing means to them! Hearing is obviously one of our core senses, those whose hearing is compromised need to rely on other senses to compensate and gain access to information around them. One of the areas most…
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World Cochlear Implant Day 2023 – A User’s Perspective

Today is World Cochlear Implant Day! In anticipation of the special day, we spoke with our friend and bilateral Cochlear Implant user, Andrea Lepore. Cochlear Implants allow those with hearing loss not well managed with hearing aids to immerse themselves into the hearing world. A far cry from the body-worn devices first used in the…
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The Digital Divide

I think back to 2001, I was looking at universities and I went to an event at the University of Essex for their Computer Science program. The presentation was given by one of their lecturers who at the time talked about the hardware which was being used to fly aircraft, and the unreliability of that…
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Olive Juice

The month of February is always rife with cheesy advertisements, whether for the SuperBowl or reminders about Valentine’s Day. I don’t particularly care for the SuperBowl; I’m of the opinion that the halftime show is always weirdly interrupted by a football game! And, when speaking of Valentine’s day, I’ve always considered it to be more…
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