Welsh live captions and productivity tool for job interviews

RNID data shows that only 37% of people who report British Sign Language as their primary language are in employment, compared with 77% of non-disabled people — an employment gap of 40 percentage points. In Wales specifically, an estimated 4% of the working-age population wear hearing aids or are profoundly deaf or have severe hearing loss, and Wales has more disabled people per capita than other UK nations, with correspondingly higher rates of disabled unemployment. People with hearing loss in the UK earn on average £2,000 less per year than the general population.

A report published by the Welsh Government in 2019 — 'Able, ready to work... and deaf' — captured the lived experience of deaf people across Wales, documenting that job interviews represented one of the most consistently difficult experiences for deaf candidates: rapid speech, unfamiliar accents, background noise, and the absence of captioning combined to make equal participation effectively impossible without accommodation that was rarely proactively offered.

The Welsh Government published a written statement in December 2025 on improving care for people with hearing loss, signalling ongoing policy attention. Yet the gap between policy intention and interview-room reality for deaf Welsh job seekers remains substantial. Captio AI gives deaf and hard of hearing candidates in Cardiff, Swansea, and Gwynedd a way to follow every word of a Welsh or English interview in real time — without an interpreter, without advance notice, and without changing the interview format.