Today’s learning environments have changed markedly from just a couple years ago, prior to the pandemic. Tech devices are comprehensively in both the student and teacher hands, but are they missing a key peripheral device that allows them to sync with the changed learning modalities? Headsets and headphones might seem to be an optional and indistinct peripheral for learners, yet they are proving to be an increasingly non-optional and functionally differentiated item, the absence of which could be causing operational inaccessibility among learners.