In 2019, the Parliament of Uganda enacted the Persons with Disabilities Act which, among other things, requires all newscasts on public and private television stations to have a sign language ...

A GAA club in Uganda is using newly developed sign language to teach deaf schoolchildren hurling and Gaelic football. The coaching has come courtesy of Clare man John Conroy, a long-time volunteer ...

A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.

Kenyan innovator Elly Savatia wins major award for Terp 360, an AI app translating speech into sign language via 3D avatars, ...

There exists a lack of fact-checking resources for deaf and hard-of-hearing communities today, even as mis- and disinformation online is on the rise. “[The] deaf community is particularly vulnerable ...