Summary
HLAA's announcement that Google Maps now shows an accessibility attribute for assistive hearing loops, added at the request of its loop programme.
Key findings
- Reports that Google added an assistive hearing loop attribute to Google Maps at the request of HLAA's Get in the Hearing Loop committee, so that people can find out before they go whether a business or venue has a loop.
- Says the programme is helping Google add loop locations to its database and that venues can also update their own profiles.
- Explains where the attribute appears: in the About section of a place's listing on a phone, or through the arrow next to the description on a computer.
- Asks readers to spread the word, to write hearing loop reviews on venues' Google Maps listings, with a photo of the loop sign where possible, and to use reviews to ask venues to install a loop.
- States that most prescription hearing aids and cochlear implants have telecoils, and advises asking an audiologist or hearing instrument specialist how to use the function.
Limits
An announcement with no figures on how many venues carry the attribute, how entries are checked or whether listed loops work; the entries described come from HLAA volunteers and from venues themselves. First published on 14 December 2022; the page records a change on 23 January 2025.
Read the original
www.hearingloss.org/google-maps-now-includes-hearing-loops
Cited in
- How do listeners learn that a venue has assistive listening, and which signs and symbols do the rules ask for?Partly answered
Cite this source
Perazzoli C (volunteer chair, Get in the Hearing Loop programme). Google Maps Now Includes Hearing Loops. Hearing Loss Association of America. 14 December 2022. https://www.hearingloss.org/google-maps-now-includes-hearing-loops/ (accessed 9 October 2026).
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