There are 466 M deaf across the world according to World Health Organisation. They are deprived of their basic human right which is communicating with others. Many solutions have been developed to help hard-of-hearing people overcome communication barriers. The existing sign language recognition research focuses on sign languages other than Tunisian Sign Language. Consequently, a Tunisian Sign Language dataset, TunSL-D, was developed for this research. The dataset contains static images that are more complex and can generalize the classification tasks. The images represent the most used words and alphabets in Tunisian Sign language. This paper proposes a novel model TunSLR-25 that recognizes and classifies static Tunisian sign language. The model is first trained on the words data, achieving an accuracy of 95.49%, then trained on both words and alphabets, achieving an accuracy of 88%, with a low parameter number of 1,098,901. The TunSL-D has been trained on SLRNet-8 CNN, a 4-layer CNN model, pre-trained models Resnet50, Resnet101, and InceptionV3. The paper compares the performance of these CNN models and the proposed CNN model TunSLR-25. The system will be integrated into a web application designed to be accessible and user-friendly for this community.