ASLearn

Imagine being able to converse with only your hands, our creation will help you do just that.

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Inspiration

Learning ASL can be a rewarding skill as it allows a full range of communication with someone who is hearing impaired. The ASLearn team wants to make a positive impact on the deaf community and promote awareness.

What it does

ASLearn is a text-to-ASL generator. It takes user inputted text and translates it to ASL hand gestures. Additionally, there’s an ASLearn mini-game that quizzes the user on their knowledge of the ASL alphabet where the user has to input the correct text corresponding to the hand signs displayed.

How we built it

ASLearn was built using JavaScript. The website was made using HTML and designed using CSS.

Challenges we ran into

One of the challenges we ran into was receiving a delayed output of ASL signs after the user inputted alphabetical text. This was later resolved in our program by implementing another function that would have separate buttons to confirm when the user has finished inputting their letters.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were incredibly proud of how our team managed our goals with the given time constraints. We were satisfied with meeting each other’s goals and expectations.

What we learned

While working on this project, we learned the importance of ASL and how important this form of communication can be, and the impact it can have on the deaf community.

This was the first hackathon our team had participated in. This experience allowed us to communicate different ideas to the team and work collaboratively. One particular thing we learned was the use of GitHub. GitHub allowed for a streamlined way of sending and receiving updates to the program which helped assign tasks and remain organized.

What's next for ASLearn

ASLearn will continue to develop this program and add more features to enhance the experience of learning ASL. Some planned features are creating more mini-games and implementing a more complex website design to make the website more interactive for the users.

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