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Deaf Led AI Governance October 28, 2026

Human Review, Optional: Deaf AI and the Airport Sign Language Pitch

The announcement you cannot hear I am DeafBlind, and I know the airport moment by heart. The gate…

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AI Governance & Digital Risk October 28, 2026

The Guidance Is Gone but the Statute Is Not: AI, Disability, and Employment Decisions After the January 2025 Withdrawals

A video interview with no captions The complainant is known in the filings as D.K. She is Deaf…

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Deaf Led AI Governance October 28, 2026

Consulted, Then Ghosted: How AI Made the Expert Optional

The pattern It usually starts well. Two or three people find each other early, before there is a…

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Deaf Led AI Governance October 26, 2026

I Filed One Complaint. An Airport Took Its AI Signer Down.

A train, a screen and a signer CVG is built like a lot of American hub airports. You…

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Deaf Led AI Governance October 25, 2026

The Record of What Was Said

The word that came back yellow In my own use of SL2T, some signs come back less reliably…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI October 25, 2026

The Count That Disappeared: What Arkansas Stopped Publishing When It Merged Its School for the Deaf

NCG Insights. Drawn from the National Deaf Education Data Index, state file 04 (Arkansas), compiled 15 August 2026.…

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Deaf Led AI Governance October 25, 2026

Never Signed, or Signed Wrong: What Two Airports and a Rail FOI Teach Buyers of AI Signing

Two screens, two failures The first thing I check at any airport screen is where it hangs. I…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI October 24, 2026

Minnesota Counts Its Deaf Children. It Does Not Say Where They Are.

Picture a mother in a small district in west central Minnesota. Her son failed his newborn hearing screen,…

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Deaf Led AI Governance October 24, 2026

The Certificate That Says Nothing

Signed language AI is about to become assurable. What a certificate will not tell you is whether Deaf…

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