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actiononhearingloss.org.uk
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We’ve been working to improve access to health
care for people with deafness, hearing loss and
tinnitus. We collaborated with NHS Choices
on improving its website content: now 10 of its
most-viewed pages are accessible to deaf people,
as they now incorporate BSL translations.
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We’ve developed an employer-attitude campaign,
to raise employers’ awareness of what it means
to – and why they should – employ staff with
hearing loss. In parallel, we’ve been sharing
our expertise with the government’s Disability
Confident campaign, which works with employers
to remove barriers, increase understanding and
ensure that disabled people have the opportunity
to fulfil their potential.
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We launched Online Today,
in partnership with RNIB, Sense,
Guide Dogs, and Action for Blind
People. It’s a project that aims to help
people with sensory loss gain and
develop the skills to use technology
and the internet with confidence. We’ve
helped over 550 people, including Bill,
from Gwent in Wales, who features in a
video you can access via our website.
He can now use the telephone for the
first time in quite a while, through a text
relay app, to speak to his daughter who
lives in England.
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We worked with
NHS Choices
to improve its
website: now 10 of
its most-viewed
pages incorporate
BSL translations
actiononhearingloss.org.uk/about-us/
annual-report/videos.aspx
We delivered over 16,000 sign language assignments to people who needed
communication support, and over 1,400 assignments to people needing non-BSL or
electronic support to communicate, such as speech-to-text reporters (STTRs) who
provide a word-for-word account on a screen, in real time, for deaf users to read.