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Our Latest Obsession at deaffriendly.com: OtoSense

Posted by: Staff Writer on April 20, 2015 | Comments
A couple weeks ago, during our weekly staff meeting, we were swapping stories about missed doorbells, burning cookies in the oven, and well… overflowing the bathroom sink. It’s a Deaf thing. C’mon, you’ve been there too, right? One our staffers remembers the day she overflowed the sink, twice and burned a romantic dinner for her sweetie. Needless to say she wasn’t feeling the love that night as she washed a load of sopping wet towels.
Read More8 Realities of Accessibility Tax Credits and Deductions - Through a Deaf CPA’s Eyes

Posted by: Staff Writer on June 17, 2013 | Comments
Ever wondered why, in the enlightened 21st Century, it still seems so gosh-dang impossible to coax some businesses to invest in your basic right to services like sign language interpreters or CART? We wondered the same, so we asked Howard Knight, a deaf CPA and Principal of Howard Knight, CPA, to give us the straight scoop about the realities of accessibility-oriented tax credits and deductions.
Read MoreHashtag Revolution: Changing Our World with #captionTHIS

Posted by: Staff Writer on June 11, 2012 | Comments
Behold the power of the social media. Did you notice the #captionTHIS tweets and Facebook posts last week? The simple pound key (“#”) has sparked a grassroots revolution that’s spreading to mom-and-pop operations and large Fortune 500 companies. The driving force behind the hashtag: The urgent need to put captions on more online media.
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