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Latest editorials
- DeafBlind Awareness Week 2026: Who It Serves and How to Get Involved DeafBlind Awareness Week runs June 25 through July 1, 2026. The week honors Helen Keller’s June 27 birthday and highlights the lives, needs, and achievements of DeafBlind Americans. Here is what the week is, who it serves, and where to find resources.
- The DOJ Is Arguing States Have No Obligation to Keep Disabled Americans Out of Institutions. Here Is What That Means. A Trump DOJ memo argues states have no constitutional obligation to provide community-based services — a direct threat to the Olmstead protections that allow Deaf and disabled Americans to live in their own communities.
- The Government Gave Itself Another Year to Make Its Websites Accessible. You Have Until June 22 to Object. Two spring rulemakings quietly pushed the deadline for accessible state and local government websites from 2026 to 2027. A public comment window closes June 22 — and “accessible” means the captions and usable forms the Deaf community depends on.
- Touch Is a Language: What the DeafBlind Community Is Teaching the Rest of Us DeafBlind Awareness Week honors Helen Keller every June. The bigger story: a community building its own language — Protactile — and demanding to be counted.
- When the Robot Signs: Why an AI Avatar Cannot Replace a Deaf Community Sorenson just announced AI ASL tools. A startup is shipping rings that translate sign language. The press loves it. But none of it answers the question our community has been asking for forty years — who gets to tell our stories?
- We Rise Together: Why the Deaf Economy Depends on Every One of Us Why our talent, money, and attention keep flowing outward — and what changes when we make the deliberate choice to hire each other, buy from each other, and elevate each other instead.
- The Story Behind DeafMonitor’s Brand Refresh How a conversation with a Creative Director turned an AI-generated logo into a polished, unified brand identity.
- DeafMonitor and The Deaf Index Announce Strategic Partnership to Build the Most Comprehensive Deaf Business Directory Ever Created Two complementary Deaf-led platforms unite to create a unified, always-synchronized Deaf business and organizations directory — accessible to every community member regardless of device, data plan, or connectivity.