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The Power of Words
Where I ♥ to Work
In the last year, coworking at Clockwise has significantly boosted my wellbeing and business productivity. The Exeter office has a warm and vibrant community, its own cafe and regular events from quiz nights to yoga. Based in leafy Southernhay, it’s the perfect location for lunchtimes and attending city networking events.
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Tilly Lander Williams, Copywriter @moorheartcopy
Three Tips Deaf Awareness & Accessibility
Ahmed Khalifa is an experienced digital marketer and a huge advocate of deaf awareness, sign language and web accessibility. He is also deaf/hard of hearing, has been since birth and wears hearing aids. Ahmed shares the challenges and situations he’s faced on his website HearMeOutCC.com Ahmed works with companies and creators to be more deafaware when making videos but also to demonstrate that a wide variety of people will benefit from closed captions, which can then attract more exposure and engagement to your videos.
1.Ask, don’t assume Deafness is a spectrum, and what works for one won’t necessarily work for another. The best thing to do is to ask what can be done to make a conversation easier and work together to resolve that. For example, booking a sign language interpreter is pointless if a person doesn’t communicate in sign language.
2. Have good lighting
Whether it’s in-person or virtual, whether it’s oral language or sign language, good lighting is crucial in order to follow a conversation. So make sure you are in a well-lit room so that your face is clearly visible. It can also help a person to lip read (provided that the lips are not hidden behind a thick moustache).
3. Use a microphone
For those who depend on oral communication, having poor-quality microphones and sound (plus noisy backgrounds) can affect communication and hinder the quality of the auto-captions. And that includes using those built-in microphones in the laptop, which are known to emit poor-quality sounds. Everyone can benefit from good quality sounds during a video call, not just those who are deaf or hard of hearing, so consider investing in a simple microphone - it doesn’t need to be expensive.
