@h2h Thanks for your thoughts. The key ingredient missing is that unlike other disabilities it does not allow lawyers to sue establishments. Until that becomes common and lucrative for the legal community nothing will change. If it ever does the problem would be solved in short order. Venues would complain and say it is too costly but just like with the increase in minimum wages they have been forced to pay to their employees they would adapt.
The big difference here is my making their establishments more attractive to people with hearing loss would actually enhance their profitability and quickly pay back the money they spend. They could even advertise it. People that don’t suffer hearing loss have no idea how large our community really is because if they did they would eagerly accommodate us. That and being sued with the likelihood of losing would quickly get their attention along with all the lawyers who have been suing restaurants and office buildings for years.
Hopefully the ADA puts some teeth in their guidelines. Money or the loss of it is a great motivator.
Let’s go ADA.