Apparently 4-10 May is Deaf Awareness Week. While my work will be slightly distracted with an election, they've expressed willingness to do more diversity awareness via the main website, which everyone will be looking at this week ( Read more... )

And this is how companies should be able to respond. Within 3 days of the conference, I got this email ( Read more... )

Was wandering round stalls at the public sector procurement conference and in a quiet corner found two lonely chaps from Language Link - they provide in-person and remote translation services for the NHS, police etc. They listed some services on a pull-up banner including in-person and video BSL, so when they said hello, I asked if they also ( Read more... )

Got a letter from DWP/ATOS on Friday, asking me to write to tell them why I didn't turn up to my ATOS PIP assessment on 16 January, if I don't want my claim cancelled ( Read more... )

So I tried again with my new computer to install the software for downloading BBC programmes, and it claims to have done it properly. Except that the 'settings' are wrong. It says to change the security settings using 'this guide' - ie a link to something totally different ( Read more... )

There's an unwritten law that any audiology or hearing aid department - you know, places where lots of people who can't hear much are likely to go - must only hire receptionists who speak little English, with strong foreign accents, and who are as unhelpful, jobsworthy and generally gormless as possible ( Read more... )

My work phone has died. It worked on Monday ( Read more... )

I'm told that this is just a normal hymn on Songs of Praise - but it sounds just like the subtitles say to me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ZnPE3G_YY

OK, we're almost there on getting a captioned meeting at noon tomorrow. Would have had it at 5pm today except for getting scuppered by the same thing as many others:

how do I put my phone on mute?
It's a Nokia, 6030i I think.
Can't find it under Settings...

Alan Cumming's arse and captioned words for only a fiver! Bargain ( Read more... )