For organizations

Months, not years.

Signed: International Sign — pending How this page is tested

Broadcasters, platforms, venues and schools: your accessibility obligation already exists, and it is probably already funded. This is what closing it actually looks like.

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This page in sign language

The people this page is about are the ones who most need it signed. International Sign for the global site; your national sign language on your country page. Signed by a Deaf creator, credited by name.

International Sign Captions + transcript ship with the video. Read this instead

The obligation you are under

The mandate is the market.

In plain words

Laws in many countries now require your service to be accessible. Most of those laws ask for captions. Captions do not reach most Deaf people. So you can pass the audit and still fail the audience — and the audit is getting stricter.

The European Accessibility Act is in force. In the United States, ADA Title II sets deadlines for public entities and their contractors. Local ordinances are arriving city by city. What almost none of them yet require is the one modality that reaches most profoundly Deaf people.

Compliant isn't the same as understood.

The European Accessibility Act has been in force since June 2025.

Receipt: EU Directive 2019/882

Captions run at 140–230 words per minute; median Deaf comprehension is around 100–140 — and comprehension falls as caption rate rises.

Receipt: Jensema 1998; Burnham 2008; Tyler 2009

What we deliver

Three tracks, one request.

  • Sign language

    Recorded by a named Deaf creator in the sign language your audience actually uses, rendered as a layer over your player.

  • Captions and transcript

    Human-checked, in the written language of the market, shipped with the video rather than after it.

  • Audio description

    A description track that carries the story for blind and low-vision viewers.

The tracks render over content your viewers already lawfully access. We never re-host, copy or touch your files — see the developer quickstart for exactly what a request returns.

What you bring

Your content and your player. That is it.

  • The content you already publish, wherever it already lives.
  • A player you can add a layer to — web, app or in-venue screen.
  • One person who owns accessibility and can sign off on what ships.

You do not bring interpreters, a studio, a content operation or a new CMS. The creators are already organised; that is the point of the community behind this.

How the creator community works

Timeline

Months, not years.

A first title or a first venue is a matter of weeks once the content and the creator are matched. A full catalogue is a programme, not a project — and it is measured in months.

The pilot shape

One title. One venue. One district.

Every deployment we have run starts deliberately small and public: a single scope, a number agreed before it starts, and the result published whether or not it flatters us.

  • Scope — one title, one venue, or one district. Not a catalogue.
  • Measure — agreed in advance: reach, completion, or citizens served.
  • Publish — the result goes on our impact page with its receipt.

A pattern you can copy

Pattern

A city writes access into law

Problem
The law already mandates accessibility. No service delivers it, so citizens never feel it.
What happened
A city advanced two ordinances — healthcare accessibility and cinema accessibility — with as technical partner.
Benefit
A replicable template: the ordinance language, the budget logic and the service behind it travel together. Any city can copy it.

Two city ordinances — one on healthcare accessibility, one on cinema accessibility — have passed first reading, with as technical partner.

Receipt: Parañaque City Council records

Where this is happening

Two city ordinances — one on healthcare accessibility, one on cinema accessibility — have passed first reading, with as technical partner.

Receipt: Parañaque City Council records

Next step

Tell us which screen, venue or catalogue you need to reach.

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