Signs what a sentence means — not what its words spell.
One line of code adds an Arabic-first access layer to any website: real human interpreters that sign what a sentence means, AI descriptions that read every image aloud, and 19 accessibility tools — with no redesign.
So text alone is not access. And some sign tools translate word by word: on Arabic words with two meanings they are right 50% of the time — chance. أمي becomes “my mother” instead of “illiterate”. Service instructions, notices, alerts, required documents and form fields on government sites still need a family member or a local sign interpreter.
Answered by: the AI meaning engine
Diagrams, infographics, procedures shown as steps in an image, and Arabic text inside images — notices, forms, labels. 53.1% of the top one million home pages have images with no text alternative — 10.8 per page. The screen reader reads a file name, or nothing; Arabic descriptions are rarely offered.
Answered by: AI image description
Sources: WHO World report on hearing (2021) (opens in a new tab) · IAPB Vision Atlas (opens in a new tab) · WebAIM Million 2026 (opens in a new tab) · 50%: Isharat measurement, 102 sentences, 17 homographs
أمي
Beta 88.2% right sense on 102 test sentences, vs 50% for word-by-word lookup — same model; an engineering measure, not yet Deaf-rated accuracy.
Try it yourself
No redesign, no developer sprint, no changes to your existing site.
Paste a single script tag into your site — works with any CMS, framework, or custom build.
We match colors, logos, and language to your site — or your government design system.
Every visitor gets the accessibility toolbar and sign-language translation automatically — no action needed from your team.
Works in every major browser
Trusted across government, education, healthcare, and enterprise
Standards we align with: WCAG 2.2 AA · Saudi DGA controls · first-party audit ISH-AUD-2026-v2.4-CR
19 accessibility tools, real sign-language translation, and enterprise-grade branding — all live today unless marked otherwise.
19 tools plus 8 one-click modes — screen reader, bigger text, contrast, dyslexia font, reading mask, big cursor, and more — adjustable per visitor, no changes to your site's code.
See all 19 toolsSelect any text and Isharat plays it back in real, human-recorded Arabic Sign Language — sourced from Egypt's national Unified Sign Language Dictionary, reviewed by Egypt's Specific Union of Deaf Associations. Every translation carries a three-level comprehension rating so Deaf viewers can tell us when a sign is wrong.
See how it worksBlind and low-vision visitors get real AI-generated descriptions of every image, at three detail levels — applied as real alt text, compatible with their own screen reader. It reads text inside images in both Arabic and English, and leaves human-written alt text alone unless the visitor asks it not to.
Learn moreBuilt for B2B and B2G customers: match the widget's colors, fonts, logos, and content to your own brand or government design system — no rebuild required.
Learn moreIsharat's Arabic sign-language library is grounded in Egypt's national Unified Sign Language Dictionary and reviewed by Egypt's Specific Union of Deaf Associations — real human interpreters with real facial expression, chosen by meaning. It's built on an architecture designed from day one to adapt across regions, with a growing roadmap to extend beyond Arabic into other sign languages, including ASL and BSL, as we expand into new markets.
Example · “I want”
One concept, one meaning
Localizable sign videos — the interpreter and signs for each country: Qatar · Egypt · KSA…
Isharat’s signs are Unified Arabic Sign Language — built on Egypt’s national Unified Sign Language Dictionary, with the Arab League’s regional dictionary (Qatar) and the UAE’s official dictionaries.
Where the signs come from, who approved them, and how the dictionary keeps growing.
Isharat's sign vocabulary comes from the national Unified Sign Language Dictionary (القاموس الموحد للغة الإشارة) our own team developed — announced on the Egyptian Presidency's portal, and carried out with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Social Solidarity, and the Teachers Academy.
See it on presidency.eg →Every recorded sign was reviewed and approved under a signed protocol with Egypt's Union of Deaf Associations (الاتحاد النوعي لجمعيات الصم). The review authority is the Deaf community's own representative body — not Isharat's engineering team. Our interpreters are certified by Egypt's Specific Union of Deaf Associations (الاتحاد النوعي لجمعيات الصم).
Finger-spelling is a normal part of sign language, used for proper names and brand-new technical terms. Isharat logs every finger-spelled word across all customer sites automatically, and our linguistic team uses that live queue to decide which signs to film next in ongoing studio recording sessions.
How the dictionary is built →The same dictionary is published as a full educational platform, officially approved by Egypt's Ministry of Education and the Teachers' Professional Academy and distributed to over 200 Deaf schools.
Open the sign dictionary →Full access requires a subscription.
Our Accessibility Conformance & QA Division assessed the widget's own interface against WCAG 2.2 AA and the Saudi DGA controls, testing with real screen readers, keyboard-only workflows, and contrast audits. This is a first-party audit — it reports tested capability, and is not a legal guarantee of compliance for any individual website.
Read the audit summary →Deaf and blind people test Isharat and rate every translation — and our Deaf and blind leads are joining release decisions.
EFD Deaf Foundation (opens in a new tab) — Deaf-led partner. Karam Gamal (Deaf), Chairman of the Board of Trustees, WFD member — Deaf Language & Cultural Lead
Edu Foundation (opens in a new tab) — blind-led partner. Dr. Philip Habib (blind) — Image Description Lead
38 pilot testers — 20 Deaf and 18 blind — under 7 cooperation protocols with associations and community institutions
Every translation is rated by Deaf viewers (Good / Partly / Unclear), and an unclear rating retires that cached translation
Pulled straight from Isharat's own production dashboards — not estimates. Where a number comes from a Beta engine rather than live customer traffic, it says so.
Every figure names its source. Figures are as of 14 October 2026, except where a card gives its own date. How we measure (PDF)
Mada Innovation Award 2026 · Qatar
Isharat was selected for the final stage of the Mada Innovation Award 2026, run by Mada — Qatar Assistive Technology Center, from more than 2,000 applicants (according to Mada).
AI Hackathon for People with Disabilities · KSCDR · Saudi Arabia
Isharat was shortlisted as a finalist in the AI Hackathon for People with Disabilities, organised by the King Salman Center for Disability Research, which drew 2,251 participants in 918 teams. We presented Isharat at our booth at the 7th International Conference on Disability and Rehabilitation (ICDR 2026), King Faisal Conference Center, Riyadh, 11–13 October 2026.
AI Hackathon (opens in a new tab) · ICDR 2026 (opens in a new tab)
One line of code or our REST API, an annual licence with an SLA, nothing redesigned.
Your own dashboard: switch tools on per site, apply your branding, and see statistics for your entity only — tool usage, words signed and read aloud, images described. Anonymous: no disability data.
Make your mobile apps and touch kiosks accessible — in airports, hospitals, courts, banks — through per-institution API keys.
Isharat’s meaning layer works before rendering, so it can serve your tools — avatars included — through the API: complementary, not competing.
People from the Deaf and blind communities who tested Isharat, in their own words.
“I really liked this tool. It helped me understand the website better, without help from anyone.”
“I was able to describe the image and read the text inside it, without even asking. I uploaded a photo of my ID, and the description was very accurate.”
“For the first time, I can get an accurate description of our foundation's logo and colours in this much detail.”
Exactly what leaves a visitor's browser, feature by feature. No account or personal login is required to use Isharat on a licensed site.
| Feature | What's sent | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Sign-language translation | The exact text you select | Isharat's server, to look up matching signs |
| AI image description (Beta) | Each image's web address and tag details | Isharat's server, forwarded to an AI image-description provider |
| Screen reader (text-to-speech) | The text being read aloud | Isharat's server, forwarded to a text-to-speech provider |
| Automatic language detection | A short sample of visible page text | Isharat's server, forwarded to a language-detection provider |
Every item below is labeled by its real maturity stage — nothing here is claimed as live until it actually is.
Isharat is an AI-powered web accessibility widget. Adding one line of code to a website gives visitors a customizable accessibility toolbar and real, human-recorded Arabic sign-language video translation, with no changes needed to the host site.
Isharat provides tools that help remediate common accessibility barriers on any website. Compliance with WCAG 2.2, Saudi DGA, or any other standard depends on the underlying website itself; enabling Isharat does not certify or guarantee that compliance on its own.
A visitor selects text and Isharat looks each word up in a library of 8,368 human-recorded signs and 2,600+ recorded idioms, based on Egypt's national Unified Sign Language Dictionary. Measured across every customer site from launch through 17 August 2026 — 112,181 words processed — 70.3% of words got a real recorded sign and 29.7% were finger-spelled.
Today every sign is a pre-recorded video of a real, certified human interpreter. AI works behind the scenes — it understands the sentence and picks the right sign — it does not generate the signer. Isharat's meaning layer works before anything is rendered, so it can also serve avatar-based tools: we see avatars as complementary, not competing. On our roadmap: optional photorealistic signers, created from our interpreters with their consent and customised per institution — always as a choice, never replacing the filmed interpreters. Whoever signs, human or digital, facial expression and mouthing matter: in Arabic Sign Language they carry grammar and meaning, so we will only offer a digital signer that keeps them.
Finger-spelling is a normal, essential part of natural sign language. It's used for proper names — people, cities, company and brand names — and for newly coined technical terms with no dedicated sign in standard dictionaries. Every finger-spelled word is logged automatically, and our linguistic team uses that queue to prioritise which new signs to film in ongoing studio recording sessions.
Isharat's AI context engine is built to normalise regional Arabic dialects — Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine and Maghrebi — and to translate text from other source languages into Arabic Sign Language. This is currently in Beta: the selectors are live in the widget and the engine is evaluated on a published 200-sentence, 5-dialect benchmark, but it isn't yet the engine running on every production customer site.
Yes. Every sign translation carries a three-level comprehension feedback bar below the video: Good / Accurate, Partially Understood, and Unclear / Not Understood. A translation marked unclear automatically deactivates its cached entry so the engine regenerates a fresh translation on the next request, and the ratings feed our ongoing translation-quality work.
It's in Beta. It is built and working end-to-end, offering three levels of detail, but currently runs on staging infrastructure rather than being promoted across every customer site.
Yes. For B2B and B2G customers, colors, fonts, both widget logos, the trigger button style, and the widget's About tab and footer content can all be customized per subscribing website.
Yes — we can arrange to add your choice of interpreters to Isharat as a customization option.
Yes — we can add your custom translated paragraphs to Isharat's translation widget for your site as a customization option.
Isharat's current signs can be considered the Modern Standard Arabic of sign language — most are recognized across Arab countries. Some signs do differ by local culture, and Isharat is architected to add localized sign-language videos as that need comes up. Sign videos are localizable: a country’s own variants and interpreters can be added and linked to that country — Qatari and Gulf variants are in development.
No. Isharat adds what a site cannot provide — sign video and Arabic image descriptions — plus visitor-side tools. It does not fix your code or certify compliance; source fixes stay with the site owner.
Yes. Sign videos and interpreters are data, not code: a country’s own variants and interpreters can be added and linked to it. Qatari and Gulf variants are in development.
No. It makes everyday web content accessible. It is not a substitute for qualified interpreters in legal, health or court settings; a live-interpreter video call is on our roadmap as a fallback. See our Responsible AI principles.
It is in development: a public REST API with per-institution keys, so apps and touch kiosks can show Isharat’s sign translation and image descriptions.
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