Deafness and Hearing Impairment | Digital Accessibility: How We Can Help

Many deaf or hearing-impaired people can’t get the full benefit of video or audio content unless it is subtitled and/or transcribed.

It could happen to you.

A good hearing
Crackling tinnitus
Whistling tinnitus
Perceptive deafness
Conductive hearing loss

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With conductive hearing loss, sound is muffled.
With perceptive deafness, sound is distorted.
People with crackling tinnitus perceive a crackling noise in addition to the external sounds they hear.
People with whistling tinnitus perceive a whistling noise in addition to the external sounds they hear.

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When you’re posting or sharing videos, bear in mind that many of us can’t fully experience them. Subtitles will be needed for many deaf and hearing-impaired viewers. In fact, subtitles are quite helpful for everyone — if, for example, the video is hard to hear because of ambient noise or if it’s in a language that you don’t know well.

Amara (www.amara.org) is a community platform that offers an easy way to subtitle videos you post on the web.

Join thousands of other volunteers on the Internet by helping to subtitle a few minutes of your favorite videos.

Did You Know?

Sign language is also widely used among the deaf and hearing-impaired. But contrary to popular belief, sign language isn’t international. There’s French sign language, American sign language, Italian sign language, Spanish sign language and so on.

Learn more about sign language at Spread The Sign.

Deafnessand Hearing Impairment

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