Three Tips Deaf Awareness & Accessibility

Ahmed Khalifa is an experienced digital marketer and a huge advocate of deaf awareness, sign language and web accessibility. He is also deaf/hard of hearing, has been since birth and wears hearing aids. Ahmed shares the challenges and situations he’s faced on his website HearMeOutCC.com. Ahmed works with companies and creators to be more deafaware when making videos but also to demonstrate that a wide variety of people will benefit from closed captions, which can then attract more exposure and engagement to your videos. 1.Ask, don't assume Deafness is a spectrum, and what works for one won’t necessarily work for another. The best thing to do is to ask what can be done to make a conversation easier and work together to resolve that. For example, booking a sign language…

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