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Super Bowl ASL Interpretation
The recent Super Bowl has upset the deaf community in many ways, mainly the lack of visibility of ASL performers pregame and halftime on national TV. To watch the full ASL version, deaf people must go to a special link to access it on a different device instead of using cable on their TV which is an awkward process…
Elon Musk being Elon Musk
A recent Elon Musk’s tweet has upset the deaf community, see the screenshot below The deaf community has responded to Elon’s tweet explaining that ASL is very different from spoken English and that not every deaf person is proficient in English. Some people came to Elon Musk’s defense saying he has Asperger's.
Straws as an assistive technology
Recently the team at Open have had the pleasure of working with two major global beverage companies considering how disabled people buy, carry, open, consume and dispose of cans and bottles. This has provided so many fascinating insights into the design of beverage packaging and we have created some content to share with…
Disability as a Spectrum
The universe of individuals with disabilities is large, diverse and no two people experience our human condition in the same way. This can make the task of crafting public policies challenging. Let's consider one of the largest "measures" of disability data, which is contained within the U.S. Census bureau's American…

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