Free webinar: Simple tech tips for hearing loss

Join our free lunchtime learning online session, Simple tech tips for hearing loss, with our expert Usability and Accessibility Consultant, Beck Lambourne, who will highlight digital adjustments that can aid with hearing loss. 

Plus AbilityNet's Head of Finance, Fiona Watson, will share her experience of being deaf and how the digital devices and apps she uses can help you too. 

Aimed at older people and some of the issues they may commonly face, in the webinar we'll highlight a variety of hearing loss-related tools and techniques that can make a difference, including: 

• Hearing aids and loops
• Radio aids
• Sensory alerts
• Free built-in options on digital devices (Apple and Android)
• Subtitled cinema
• BSL interpretation

All registrants will receive the recording, slides and transcript after the event, so do sign up even if you can't attend on the broadcast date.

Sign up to the webinar 

Who will benefit from this webinar?

The session will benefit:

• Older people and disabled adults
• Carers of older people or disabled adults
• Health professionals working with older people or disabled adults
• People interested in tech and digital devices
• Web and Accessibility professionals interested in design and digital considerations for older people and disabled adults

If you work for an organisation that helps older people or disabled adults, this webinar shares useful resources and advice to help your clients.

This session is part of AbilityNet's work with telecommunications company BT Group to help older and digitally excluded people to build online skills and confidence.

Join the webinar 

Everyone who registers will receive the recording, slides and transcript after the event, so do sign up even if you can't attend on the broadcast date.

Q&A

This webinar will run for 45 minutes and include an opportunity to pose questions to the speaker. Find out more about our webinars in our FAQs information.

Meet your panellists

Fiona Watson, AbilityNet

Fiona Watson is the Finance Director at AbilityNet. Before AbilityNet, Fiona spent 20 years working as a Chief Financial Officer in the technology, media, and film sector. Fiona is deaf, and was inspired and attracted to AbilityNet's approach to supporting those in need of using digital accessibility to improve their lives. In her role at AbilityNet, Fiona focusses on the growth of the charity and its charitable purpose to provide digital knowledge and access to all.

Beck Lambourne, AbilityNet

Beck is a Usability and Accessibility Consultant and registered Occupational therapist, who specialises in providing accessibility guidance to individuals and organisations. Beck has a detailed understanding of assistive technology and user research, and is a driving force behind AbilityNet's mission to create a more accessible and equitable world for all.

Do you know an elderly person or a group of older people or disabled adults who want to know more about using digital devices?

Useful links

• Blog: Using technology to help elderly relatives from afar 
• Sign up to the AbilityNet newsletter for more free resources like this webinar!
• Find out about AbilityNet's Digital accessibility services