As a person with hearing loss, I often find lectures, plays, and PA system announcements indecipherable. But who else notices? Unlike someone visibly left outside because of wheelchair inaccessibility – which would leave others appalled – inaccessibility due to hearing loss is invisible and thus often unremedied.

As a person with hearing loss, I often find lectures, plays, and PA system announcements indecipherable. But who else notices? Unlike someone visibly left outside because of wheelchair inaccessibility – which would leave others appalled – inaccessibility due to hearing loss is invisible and thus often unremedied.