ORF, the Austrian national broadcaster, will provide sign language recordings, for the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, in Vienna.

Sign language versions of each of the 35 entries of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, will be offered to all EBU, the European Broadcasting Union, broadcasters who will be showing the Contest. ORF will be recording these between Monday 20th & Saturday 25th April. This is the first time that a host broadcaster is making available sign language coverage to all EBU members to use as part of their broadcasts of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Six international deaf performers have been selected by ORF to record the performances, they are: Alice Hu Xiaoshu (Shanghai), Amanda Jovanovic (Vienna), Anja Burghardt (Linz), Carina Kilinc (Vienna), David Obermaier (Graz) and Julia Kulda Hroch (Berlin).

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Author: Richard Taylor

Source: Eurovoix