Argentina
Hola. Esta es nuestra historia.
Sixteen years of asking. On 13 April 2023, the law said yes.
Access on this page: Signed: Lengua de Señas Argentina — pending How this page is tested
The Confederación Argentina de Sordos carried the same bill to Congress for sixteen years. On 13 April 2023 it passed: Ley 27.710 recognises Lengua de Señas Argentina as a natural and original language, an intangible historical legacy and part of the linguistic identity and cultural heritage of Deaf people across the whole country. It was published on 3 May 2023. The screens had been on notice far longer: since 2009, Article 66 of the audiovisual services law has required open television, its news and its programmes of general interest to carry closed captions, LSA and audio description, progressively. Progressively is the word the delivery has hidden behind. The law is ours. Now the screen.
LSA video — this story, in our language
A named Argentine Deaf creator tells this page's story in LSA. The video is the page, and the text is its transcript's cousin. This video existing is the reason this page is allowed to exist.
Our language is recognised. The obligation is fourteen years old.
The delivery is ours to build — ourselves.
What do you want to do?
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I want access
Watch.Understand.Belong.
Television, film, and services — in LSA, captions, or audio description.
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I create access
Create.Get paid.Be seen.
Deaf signers, interpreters, captioners, audio describers — your work, your name, your income.
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I provide access
One API.Every screen.
Platforms, governments, cinemas, companies — deliver real access with one integration.
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I back access
Host.Sponsor.Invest.
The builders who will turn 'progressively' into a date — be part of the firsts.
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More than one of these can be yours. The access is for you, and you can be paid to help make it.
Access in Argentina today
The law now says:
LSA is a natural and original language of Deaf people throughout Argentina — Ley 27.710, sanctioned 13 April 2023, published 3 May 2023. Open television, local production on subscription systems, and news, educational, cultural and general-interest programmes must carry closed captions, sign language and audio description — Ley 26.522, Article 66, since 2009. And the regulator has had to remind channels not to cover the interpreter's box with headlines and logos.
And we know the exhausting part: fourteen years of 'progressively'. A duty with no date, enforced by asking channels to please not hide the interpreter behind a caption.
Sixteen years to be recognised. The delivery comes next — made by us. That is what ally is: Deaf and blind creators, paid to make the access — LSA, captions, audio description — delivered to any screen.
In plain words
The law is on your side. What is missing is the service — and that is what gets built here, with the community.
Why captions alone are not enough → Why sign language
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