I am deaf. The open interviews are non-accessible for majority of the deaf community. Most of the times I'd apply for a job and I would get a response but only to find out that they dropped the date of open-interview. Most of the time I'd just try to apply other jobs, but it bothers me so much that it's non-accessible for me and my deaf community on trying to find a employment opportunity.
Sometimes I'd try to contact the recruiters to inform them about my disability that needs an accommodations, to have one on one interview with ASL interpreter. Why's that? So the interview would be done in less than 30 minutes instead of trying to read lips (this is considered as unprofessional courtesy due to not getting the full information from them), paper and pen, and other many ways of long term communications. Often, I get ignored, flaked out, acting like they never got my email reply to them, about trying to accommodate for the interview. This purely frustrates me and my deaf community.
The reason I said it is non-accessibility for me and the deaf community is because for the able-bodied people could just drive there, walk in with their resumes, have a short interview, and a possibly of getting hired on the spot. All that without a hard effort and none of the awkwardness confrontation. For us? We cannot just “hire” the interpreters by ourselves due to the ADA law; the employer must be the one to provide the ASL interpreter in order to fulfill the accommodation.
What can I do about this situation? I just generally feel so stuck on trying to look for other better opportunity for my life.