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Deaf X Human Resources August 12, 2026

Worthy of the Trust: The Sledd Case and Safeguarding in Deaf Schools

The criminal case against former Oklahoma School for the Deaf teacher and coach Sean Thomas Sledd has moved…

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Deaf Led AI Governance August 4, 2026

The Evidence That Wasn’t And Still Isn’t There

THE FIFTH PARAMETER Novara Consulting Group  ·  Novara Press  ·  Journal of Governance and Evidence in Accessibility AI…

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Deaf Led AI Governance July 27, 2026

The Consent Gap: Undisclosed Data Collection in Sign Language AI Interpreting Systems

Executive Summary Sign language artificial intelligence, whether built for recognition, translation, or avatar-based generation, depends structurally on video…

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Accessibility Governance July 26, 2026

The End of Remediation: Generative AI and the Governance Transformation of Accessibility

For nearly three decades, digital accessibility has been understood primarily as a remediation problem. Organizations create information, accessibility…

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Business ROI July 24, 2026

The Workforce Is an Investment Portfolio. Most Organizations Cannot Prove Its Return.

Spotlight on Human Capital & Organizational Governance Payroll, benefits, training, incentives, recruitment, onboarding, accommodation, and retention typically constitute…

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Accessibility Governance July 23, 2026

Authorization Before Readiness: Why Inaccessible Onboarding Is a Governance Failure, and What It Predicts About AI Deployment

Institutions routinely authorize participation before they have built the conditions that make participation possible. A hiring decision is…

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Deaf Led AI Governance July 22, 2026

The Procurement Theater Problem: Procedural Assurance, Evidentiary Assurance, and the Governance of Accessibility AI

Executive Summary Institutions acquiring artificial intelligence systems for communication access are increasingly confident that they have managed risk,…

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Deaf Led AI Governance July 14, 2026

Who Audits the Audit Trail? AI-Generated Conformance Claims and the Procurement Problem

The history of public procurement can be read, in part, as the history of documentary trust. Governments rarely…

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Deaf Led AI Governance July 12, 2026

NCG Insight: From Disney’s ASL Fragmentation to the SLxAI Governance Gap

Disney’s limited ASL rollout is not an isolated execution choice. It is a clean analog for what is…

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