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Deaf News: YouTube confirms removal of community captions feature

October 5, 2020 by

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Community captions, which allowed viewers to submit subtitles and translations to a YouTube channel, will be scrapped as planned at […]

Deaf News: Where Is The Interpreter campaign launches Deaf Walk fundraiser

September 21, 2020 by

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Deaf presenter Lynn Stewart-Taylor is to walk from Cardiff to London next month, to raise funds for the Where Is […]

Deaf News: International deaf education webinar criticised over lack of accessibility

August 29, 2020 by

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The Global Coalition of Parents of Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (GPODHH) has come under fire from […]

Exclusive: BBC declined Government request to show signed Coronavirus briefings on BBC One

August 24, 2020 by

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The BBC refused a request from Government officials to broadcast the daily coronavirus briefings on BBC One with a British […]

Deaf News: DWP to improve services for deaf customers in new legal agreement

August 20, 2020 by

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is to better its support for deaf customers using video relay, it has […]

Revealed: UK Government failed to consider equalities impact for coronavirus briefings

August 5, 2020 by

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The UK Government did not carry out an Equalities Impact Assessment for its daily statements on coronavirus, The Limping Chicken […]

Deaf News: Judicial review over #WhereIsTheInterpreter put on hold

July 29, 2020 by

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The deaf activist behind the campaign to have a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter present at UK Government briefings has […]

Deaf News: Campaigners reveal legal challenges as #WhereIsTheInterpreter campaign continues

June 23, 2020 by

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The Government has been given a deadline of a week to respond to 280 letters from Deaf people over #WhereIsTheInterpreter, […]

Sense tells MPs government breached Equality Act with coronavirus communications

June 11, 2020 by

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There has been “many, many breaches” of the Equality Act by the UK Government during the coronavirus pandemic, the disability […]

Deaf News: UK Government fails to respond to claim letters over #WhereIsTheInterpreter

June 4, 2020 by

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Deaf activists are preparing to apply to the courts for the release of the UK Government’s equality impact assessments of its […]