FEATURE: NHK lauded for deaf interpreter use in Tokyo Games ceremony broadcasts

The use of deaf interpreters as signers in live ceremony broadcasts during the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics has won plaudits from Japan's deaf community for its innovative approach to the service.Broadcast via NHK's educational channel, the deaf interpreters, for whom sign language is their first language, were able to convey more detailed and nuanced coverage of the Olympic closing ceremony and Paralympic opening ceremony by communicating information provided to them by signers who can hear.Deaf viewers of the ceremonies praised them on social media for being "very understandable." They …READ FULL ARTICLE