CommunicationBuildingUpdated Aug 4, 2026
Sign Sense
Almost every way to learn ASL assumes you can see the signs, which shuts out DeafBlind and blind learners and makes shared learning between blind and sighted people awkward.
Why this matters
Sign language belongs to families, classrooms, and friendships that include people with very different senses. A learning tool should work for all of them at once.
- Current idea
- Sign Sense is a suite of ASL lessons and practice games designed to be equally playable by blind and sighted learners, using descriptive language, audio cues, and tactile-friendly explanations alongside visual demonstrations.
- Accessibility notes
- Every sign is taught in words as well as visuals, so a screen-reader user gets the same lesson as a sighted user. Games are keyboard-navigable and never depend on reaction speed.
- What was learned
- Describing a sign well is a skill of its own — precise, body-relative language does more for a blind learner than any animation.
Development updates
Progress in public
In development: dual-track lesson design for blind and sighted learners.
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