Category: Opinion

On the left in the background, a yellow waving hand emoji is visible with the text underneath saying 'Clubhouse Drop-in Audio'. On the right is an iPhone displaying the app Clubhouse in the App Store.

Clubhouse have finally added captions to their platform – why did Deaf users have to wait?

A purple gradient background. In the middle is text which reads: 'Voice Transformer. Change how your audience hears you by selecting a voice transformation.' There is then a slider showing a range of different icons (microphone, echos, sunglasses). Underneath this text says, 'Press and hold to hear how your own voice sounds.'

Twitter Spaces’ Voice Effects are hellish and inaccessible – they have to go

Left, Riz Ahmed, a British Pakistani man, sits half naked behind a drum kit. Right, A young blonde girl leans out of a car and shows her right hand with her thumb, pinky, middle and index fingers sticking up. The middle and index are crossed. It's a take on the sign for 'I love you' in sign language.

Music is not the antithesis to Deaf culture – audism is

The false start of the Paralympics’ WeThe15 campaign

Alfred Enoch, a Black man wearing a black bomber jacket and white shirt with the text 'good vibes only', stands on a ladder affixed to the side of Shakespeare's Globe.

Wherefore art thou ableist?

A young blonde girl leans out of a car and shows her right hand with her thumb, pinky, middle and index fingers sticking up. The middle and index are crossed. It's a take on the sign for 'I love you' in sign language.

‘CODA’ (2021) review – Hearing teen’s musical blame game amid life with a Deaf family