Stagetext has received a £20,000 grant from the National Lottery Community Fund for a community outreach project which will help raise awareness of deaf access to arts and culture in the South East of England. The project will support Stagetext’s team of ambassadors to build relationships with deaf groups and deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people across the area to spread the word about accessible events. There are 18 million adults who are deaf, deafened or hard of hearing in the UK, including approximately 4.3 million in the South…
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Hidden Hard of Hearing Community Revealed by Lockdown Captioning
Two-thirds (67%) of the public sometimes find it difficult to hear what is happening when watching TV or live performances, according to new research. [1] But with Captioning Awareness Week last month, the rise of captioned live performances and video calls during lockdown has given people who are deaf, deafened or hard of hearing hope. Following a surge in the use of captions as performances shifted online, 24% of the general public now have captions switched on all the time at home and a further 26% have them on some…
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