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December 21, 2020

Comments Off on Meet: Will Kirk, the deaf DJ appearing on BBC Radio 1 this Christmas

From nightclub sessions during university, to presenting on BBC Radio 1 this Christmas, Sheffield-based DJ Will Kirk talks to Liam […]

December 18, 2020

Legal proceedings have been launched against the Cabinet Office over its failure to provide a British Sign Language interpreter for […]

December 16, 2020

The “majority” of written government guidance on the coronavirus demands a Year 9 level of reading to understand it, a […]

December 15, 2020

A profoundly deaf former employee of a South London care home has succeeded with his discrimination case at an employment […]

December 11, 2020

Comments Off on Revealed: UK Government to fund BSL interpretation of COVID briefings on social media

The Cabinet Office is to provide British Sign Language (BSL) access to future coronavirus briefings on its social media accounts, […]

December 10, 2020

Ahead of the captioning tool getting its UK launch today, Liam sits down with Ava co-founder Thibault Duchemin to talk […]

December 9, 2020

Comments Off on Revealed: UK Government provided own BSL interpreter for vaccine briefing

Downing Street has confirmed that it provided an online British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter for its press conference on the […]

December 8, 2020

The online dictionary Lexico has confirmed to The Limping Chicken that it will review its definition of the word ‘deaf’, following criticism […]

December 4, 2020

Comments Off on Liam O’Dell: Celebrating my Freedom in a George Michael music video

“I think there’s something you should know”, mouths a model in the music video for George Michael’s hit single, Freedom! ’90. Thirty […]

December 4, 2020

It shouldn’t be a surprise that a social media star, who still fails to manually caption her Instagram and YouTube […]