Accessibility for deaf people is often framed as a technical problem: captions, devices, apps, systems. But for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, the real barrier is rarely technology.
It’s willingness to:
- Communicate differently.
- Pause, adapt, and meet someone halfway.
- Stop asking, “Can you lipread?” and start asking, “How can we communicate?”
During my recent trip to Japan, this difference became impossible to ignore.
