Chile
Hola. Esta es nuestra historia.
Our courts have ordered the channels to sign. Three times.
Access on this page: Signed: Lengua de Señas Chilena — pending How this page is tested
Chile wrote the duty first: since 2010, Article 25 of Ley 20.422 has required subtitles and sign language on emergency broadcasts, national addresses, presidential debates and public campaigns. When channels ignored it, we went to court, and won — in 2019, when the Supreme Court confirmed that unsigned coverage of the Arica emergency had breached Deaf viewers' rights; in 2021, when it ordered every channel to broadcast pandemic information with subtitles and sign language; in January 2023, when the Santiago court ruled the same about coverage of the war in Ukraine. And on 15 January 2021 the law caught up with the language itself: Ley 21.303 declares Chilean Sign Language the natural, original language and intangible heritage of Deaf people, and the State recognises it as their official language. The law is ours. The courts agree. The delivery still takes a lawsuit.
LSCh video — this story, in our language
A named Chilean Deaf creator tells this page's story in Chilean Sign Language. 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.
Three court orders for a signed screen.
The fourth should not be needed — we are building it.
What do you want to do?
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I want access
Watch.Understand.Belong.
Television, film, and services — in Chilean Sign Language, 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 make the next court order unnecessary — 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 Chile today
When we fight, Chile's own courts agree with us.
Chilean Sign Language is the natural, original language and intangible heritage of Deaf people, and their official language — Ley 21.303, enacted 15 January 2021, published 22 January. Emergency broadcasts, national addresses, presidential debates, public campaigns and news blocks during emergencies must carry subtitles and sign language — Ley 20.422, Article 25, since 2010, as amended by Ley 20.927. The Supreme Court has enforced it in 2019 and 2021; the Santiago court in 2023.
And we know the exhausting part: a duty that has needed three court orders is a duty nobody delivers on their own. Every ruling covers one emergency, one pandemic, one war.
Official since 2021. Ordered three times. The delivery comes next — made by us. That is what ally is: Deaf and blind creators, paid to make the access — Chilean Sign Language, 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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