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ver 5 per cent of the world’s population has disabling hearing loss, and students with hearing disabilities demonstrate lower educational attainment levels. In a remote-learning context, accessibility of educational content for students with hearing impairments is particularly challenging in the Arab world because of the need for live sign language interpretation.

To solve this challenge, ARL is developing an extension that can be plugged in online-learning websites that translates speech to sign language in real-time through an animated avatar.