Senso

23/09/2024

Today, on the 23rd of September, we celebrate the International Day of Sign Languages, a day dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of sign language in ensuring the human rights of Deaf Communities.

However, it’s disheartening to acknowledge that in 2024, only four countries in Africa, which are South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Uganda actually recognize Sign Language as an official language.

With 45 countries on this continent, it’s a shame that such a vital native language for Deaf individuals remains under-recognized in most nations. There's still a long way to go in achieving inclusivity for all.

Image credit: Aakash Institute

28/03/2023

If you speak, talk, write, present, or educate about accessibility and disability inclusion in any digital format (think about this for a moment in today's world)....

Use alt-text for your images

Refrain from emoji extravaganzas

Provide accurate and usable captions

Know what closed captions are and are not

Use CamelCase hashtags so they are readable (CapitalizeTheFirstLetterOfEachWordEvenIfThatReallyIsPascal)

Use headers for structure in your documents and communications

Make sure your documents and presentations are accessible for people who use assistive technologies.

If you speak, talk, write, present, or educate about accessibility in any digital format do these things.

If you have not yet, today's a great day to start.

Pick one or two and commit to making this HOW you communicate ALWAYS.

Make a date/time to add one or two more and commit to making these HOW you communicate ALWAYS.

Accessibility includes accessible communications.
Accessibility means inclusive communications.

Credit: Samantha Evans

19/11/2020

Late last year, RedBull TV invited us to be a part of their series "Walk a mile in my shoes", we always appreciate an opportunity to tell a glimpse of our journey and for that, we appreciate the RedBull team for this. Please see the link to see what this episode entailed, please let us know should you have any issue with the subtitles, enjoy-:)...

Zuko Mandlakazi shares how he created the Senso wristband to help the deaf community with their surroundings.

09/10/2020

How it started VS How it's going... Disclaimer: since we aren't able to share a complete product, the one ready for manufacturing, the product assembled on the right is the prototype reiteration we did in April 2019. We just couldn't resist this challenge🤟

16/09/2020

GSM Association, an industry organisation that represents the interests of mobile network operators worldwide ran a study on assistive devices from Africa. Senso was amongst these African companies that participated, representing South Africa. An honour for us being a part of this great body of work. Please view the study on the link below when you can.

15/09/2020

Greetings all, so, here is something we’d like to share... Neema Foundation runs this initiative every year during the month of September... To have fun while being a part of such a great cause.

11/09/2020

Greetings everyone... Every year in September, the Deaf Community increases awareness of Deaf issues, People, and Culture. Activities and events throughout the encourage individuals to come together as a community for both educational events and celebrations. In light of this, Senso will be featured on the show called Beyond TV on SABC 2, Channel 192 for DSTV. The feature will run tomorrow, Saturday 12 September at 13h00. This will be the first time we’ll be showing the ready to manufacture Senso product on TV🤟

04/06/2020

Hopefully, every member of our community here remains safe and well. Sometime last month, we wrote to the Disability Insider, a publication based in Italy. Here is what we wrote, we'd be happy to answer any question you may have:

The product’s idea came out of my frustration when I was looking for a sound assistive device that a family member who is hard of hearing could use in order to be alert to life saving sounds and other important sounds like door knock, alarms, forced entry sounds like window breaking, items making ...

21/05/2020

Hopefully, each and everyone of you, members of our community on this platform, have been safe and well during this time... Before the lockdown, we had a conversation with the team at Lexus South Africa- here is how the conversation went down, our story is on page 40...

03/03/2020

The World Health Organisation (WHO) set aside today as a World Hearing Day! 👂
According to WHO, here is how YOU can prevent hearing loss. 👇🏽

21/08/2019

Trevor Noah's success to the global community as a comedian is a great proof that humour knows no boundary. Here are three other examples of comedians who posses some great humour that certainly knows no boundaries, there's Kathy Buckley, billed as "America's first Hearing Impaired Comedienne", one of her videos is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV8uqf1xhRI and she's really funny with how she narrates how she's experienced her world. There's our very own, Mduduzi Deaf Comedian, check his page here on Facebook for some really funny skits. We also have Lee Ridley, aka Lost Voice, check one of his popular routine on Britain's Got Talent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsqInns6LXQ

20/08/2019

We came across this article from the page of the Deaf Empowerment Firm and thought we should share it in our community here as well:

Many people assume that subtitles/captions are mainly for d/Deaf people. But there are a number of benefits can be applicable to more people than you think.