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A group of people are all smiling at the camera, waving their hands in the air in Deaf applause.

Stagetext celebrates 21st birthday at venue where it all began

November 21, 2021
by Liam O'Dell

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Tagged: access, accessibility, captions, deaf, deaf access, deaf news, deafness, hard of hearing, stagetext, subtitles, theatre

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Live blog: Week 9 for Rose Ayling-Ellis on Strictly!

November 20, 2021
by Editor

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Nottingham Castle to liaise with local Deaf group after listing Makaton as an access provision for Deaf visitors

November 19, 2021
by Liam O'Dell

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Tagged: british sign language, BSL, deaf, deaf access, deaf identity, deaf news, sign language

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Ofcom - making communications work for everyone.

Ofcom launches consultation to approve 999 video relay provider

November 18, 2021
by Liam O'Dell

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EJ Raymond: The release of my new book, ‘Dusk or Dawn’

November 18, 2021
by Rebecca A Withey

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Signage reads: "Department for Work and Pensions'

Access to Work delays continue as DWP aims to contact applicants ‘within 12 weeks’

November 16, 2021
by Liam O'Dell

Tagged: access, access to work, accessibility, deaf, deaf access, deafness, disability, dwp, employment, uk politics

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Rebecca A Withey: Why was Rose and Giovanni’s silent sequence so powerful?

November 15, 2021
by Rebecca A Withey

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Sarah Playforth: Will Strictly Come Dancing lead to a permanent shift in views towards BSL?

November 15, 2021
by Editor

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Boris Johnson, a white man with white hair, stands closer to the camera. Behind him, but out of focus, is Alok Sharma, a British Indian man with short black hair. Behind them both on a screen and out of focus is text relating to the COP26 conference.

‘Disappointment’ as latest press conference on COP26 comes without BSL interpretation

November 15, 2021
by Liam O'Dell

Tagged: access, accessibility, BBC, british sign language, BSL, bsl interpretation, bsl interpreter, campaign, communication, deaf, deaf access, deaf news, deafness, interpreter, interpreters, interpreting, politics, sign language, uk politics

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Multiple coloured speech bubbles overlap each other, with the text 'Captioning Awareness Week 2021' placed on top in white rectangles, like captions. Text in the top and bottom right read 'Stagetext' and 'stagetext.org.uk' respectively.

Almost a quarter of UK population now watch captioned content ‘all the time’, Stagetext poll reveals

November 15, 2021
by Liam O'Dell

Tagged: access, accessibility, captioned, captioning, captions, communication, deaf, deaf access, deaf news, deafness, hard of hearing, live captioning, stagetext, subtitles, theatre

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