Day 25: Deaf-First Quality Control

Goal

Center Deaf language knowledge in the process.

Learn

• A technically smooth avatar can still sign incorrectly. A high recognition score can still hide failures on real signing.
• Deaf reviewers and fluent ASL users are essential for checking meaning, naturalness, grammar, cultural fit, and harm risks.
• Deaf-first quality control means involving the right people early enough to shape the pipeline, not only asking for approval at the end.

Example

• Technical review may say the wrists move smoothly. Deaf review may say the sign order is unnatural, the facial grammar is missing, or the avatar expression changes the meaning.
• Both reviews are useful, but they answer different questions.

Practice

1. Add a Deaf-review step to your pipeline diagram after data sampling, after model output, and before public release.
2. Write what each review step is allowed to change.

Checkpoint

Deaf-first note