Colombia
Hola. Esta es nuestra historia.
Recognised in 1996. Our court has been enforcing it ever since.
Access on this page: Signed: Lengua de Señas Colombiana — pending How this page is tested
Colombia recognised Lengua de Señas Colombiana in 1996 — Ley 324, among the first in Latin America — and told the State to fund interpreter training and put the language on television. Ley 982 of 2005 corrected the first law's wording: sign language is the natural language of Deaf communities. And Colombia's Constitutional Court has done what most courts will not: on 21 April 2022 it ruled that universities must provide interpreters for Deaf adults as a reasonable accommodation — one of a line of judgments that treat a Deaf person's language as a right the State must pay for. The law is thirty years old. The court keeps saying yes. The delivery is what we build.
LSC video — this story, in our language
A named Colombian Deaf creator tells this page's story in Colombian 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.
Thirty years of recognition. A court that says yes.
Now the screens — made by us.
What do you want to do?
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I want access
Watch.Understand.Belong.
Television, film, and services — in Colombian 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 turn a 1996 law into a signed screen — 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 Colombia today
When we fight, Colombia's own court agrees with us.
Colombian Sign Language is recognised as the Deaf community's own means of communication, with a State duty to promote it, fund interpreter training and use it on television — Ley 324 of 1996. It is the natural language of Deaf communities — Ley 982 of 2005. Higher education must provide interpreters as a reasonable accommodation — Constitutional Court, judgment T-138 of 21 April 2022. The National Institute for the Deaf, INSOR, is the State's own body for the language.
And we know the exhausting part: a right won by tutela is a right one person at a time. Thirty years after the law, whether the news signs still depends on the channel and the decree.
Thirty years recognised. The delivery comes next — made by us. That is what ally is: Deaf and blind creators, paid to make the access — Colombian 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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