Sign language
Point the app at what you are watching. A signer appears, in sync, in your own sign language — for Deaf people and anyone who signs.
Community
Made with us. Paying us. In our language.
Access on this page: Signed: International Sign — pending How this page is tested
Access here is made by Deaf and disabled people, not for them. Creators are credited by name and paid for their work.
There is more than one community here — Deaf, hard of hearing, blind, low vision. Each needs something different. And each is on both sides of it: the people it is for, and the people who know how to make it well.
This page in sign language
Signed end-to-end by a Deaf creator — this page must exist in sign language before anything else does. International Sign for the global site; your national sign language on your country page. Signed by a Deaf creator, credited by name.
I want access
Watch. Understand. Belong.
In plain words
If you are Deaf, hard of hearing, blind or low-vision: this is what exists today, honestly. The app that shows sign language, captions or description on top of what you are watching is in private testing. Join the list and we will tell you when it opens near you.
Captions
Human captions in your written language, timed to the content — for the hard of hearing and anyone who wants them.
Audio description
Description that carries the story, for blind and low-vision viewers. Works with your screen reader and your ears.
Where it is at
The app is in private testing with partner communities. It is not yet in public app stores. We say so plainly because a promise you cannot use is not access.
I create access
Create. Get paid. Be seen.
In plain words
If you sign, caption, describe or interpret, you can make access on this platform and be paid for it. You keep your name on your work. The first creators are shaping how payment works.
Who can contribute
- Deaf signers Interpret films, lessons, news, public information — in your sign language.
- Interpreters and CODAs Professional and community interpreters, credited as such.
- Captioners Human captions in the written language of your market.
- Audio describers Description that carries the story for blind and low-vision viewers.
How it works, honestly
- You record or write the access track for a piece of content.
- ally handles storage, sync and delivery to every screen that asks for it.
- You are credited by name wherever it plays, and paid for it.
The payment model is being set with the first creators, in the open. No numbers are printed here until they are real.
See what making one looks like
The creator side, not the buyer side — this is the work, and what you are paid for.
Make it
Where the access gets made.
The creator site is where creators put their work: sign language video, captions, audio description. One place to upload it, and one place to see what happened to it.
In plain words
You record the access once. You attach it to the thing it is about — a film, a page, a place, the words on a sign. After that it can be used in more than one place, without you recording it again.
Upload once
One recording can sit in many places. One place can carry many recordings — different signers, regional variants, more than one language.
Every placement is checked
A sign language video can be good work and still be the wrong fit somewhere. So each placement is reviewed on its own, not just the recording behind it.
Your name stays on it
You keep your name on your work, and you can see where it is being used.
How payment works: paid per placement — each time your recording is used in a deployment. The rate is set with the first cohort of creators, not handed down, and it gets published here when it is real.
Where it is at
The creator site is in private development. Creators can sign in, upload, and have work reviewed and published — but it is not open to everyone yet. We will say here when it is, because a tool you cannot use is not access.
Uploading access — a walkthrough
A short demo: uploading a sign language track and attaching it to what it is about. Signed and captioned. Recording once the portal is ready to show.
Creator stories
In their own words.
Creators tell their own stories, in their own sign language, under their own names. Captioned, described and transcribed. No one speaks for the community here.
Creator story — recording
A named Deaf creator, in their own words and their own sign language.
For organisations
Deaf associations, blind groups, PWD federations.
You are the validators and the channel. Bring ally to your city or country: we share power, credit and pay with the community, and we say what is real.
- Your members become paid creators in their own sign language.
- Your city or agency gets a technical partner, not a vendor.
- Your community's page opens only when a local Deaf creator has signed it.
About 70 million Deaf people worldwide use a sign language as their first or preferred language.
Receipt: World Federation of the Deaf
A telco-funded 2021 pilot brought the platform to a Deaf school community of about 800 users.
Receipt: company fact