Blind and deaf consumers, who have fought to make home phones and television more accessible, say they are being left behind on the Web and many mobile devices. Touch-based smartphone screens confound blind people who rely on buttons and raised type. Web video means little to the deaf without captioning.

“Def” has been a part of hip-hop lexicon since the early 1980s, but for Sean Forbes, it means something different. The 28-year-old from suburban Detroit has been deaf since he was a baby but says that hasn’t stopped him from making music. He recently released a new single called “I’m Deaf,” and is busy recording more songs for an upcoming album. Forbes says music has always been part of his life.

Anna Brown lives her platform, advocating achieving success in any arena despite obstacles.

Deaf and hard-of-hearing state employees in California are regularly denied sign language interpreters for meetings and have been left behind during emergency evacuations because of a failure to accommodate their disability, according to a lawsuit filed Friday.

Kevin Hall stood on the 18th tee feeling confident. It was an 18-hole round with Tiger Woods two years ago. For 17 holes, Hall kept up with the world’s No. 1 player.

March is Deaf History Awareness month, and an important part of deaf history here in the Valley is the Youngstown Hearing and Speech Center.

The Harker Heights gym was vibrating with excitement. The home team had just forced overtime with a last-second tip-in at the end of regulation in a pivotal District 12-5A basketball game two weeks ago against A&M Consolidated.

David Nelson got the bad news about his wife in December 2005. He just didn’t know it.

A conference call doesn’t usually make a city council member nervous. A stroll across campus typically isn’t tough for the McMurry University president. Thursday was a different story.