Barriers for people with auditory disabilities

  • People who speak softly or in large spaces without aids such as microphones
  • Absence of sign language interpretation
  • Loud environment or competing sounds such as background noise
  • Conversations, interactions, and meetings where accessing communication from multiple speakers is challenging
  • Little to no lighting conditions that reduces lip-reading or sign-receiving
  • Websites and other technologies that require voice interaction or listening to engage with content
  • Audio in video and films presented without captions or transcripts
  • Media players that do not support captions, or do not contain options to control the volume, or customize the size and color of captions