For Deaf and hard of hearing people
Your sign language, everywhere.
Point your phone at a place, a package or a notice. Watch it in your sign language, signed by a Deaf person. Or read it in easy words.
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This page in sign language
For Deaf and hard of hearing people. International Sign for the global site; your national sign language on your country page. Signed by a Deaf creator, credited by name.
Why it matters
Many Deaf people sign first.
In plain words
Many Deaf people use a sign language as their first language. A written notice is in a second language. That is about how most Deaf people were taught, not about what they can do.
Your language belongs on every notice.
In the United States, across three decades of national testing, the median reading score of deaf and hard-of-hearing students never rose above a fourth-grade level.
Receipt: Qi & Mitchell, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 17(1) (2012); Traxler (2000)
The World Federation of the Deaf estimates that as much as 90% of the world's Deaf children and adults have never been to school. Its 93-country survey found that only 23 countries provide bilingual education in sign language and the national language, and then only in some schools.
Receipt: Haualand & Allen, Deaf People and Human Rights, WFD (2009)
What you can do
Three kinds of help.
Here
Stories and information about where you are. A Deaf guide signs the story of a place.
Written
Point at a sign, a menu or a leaflet. If a signed version exists, it opens.
Playing
A film or a show, with sign language and captions at the same time.
Here: a place opens in access.place with Read, Listen and Sign, and the sign is made by a named Deaf creator.
Receipt: access.place product summary, 4 October 2026
Written: you point your phone camera at the words on a letter, notice or sign. If a signed version exists, it opens. If it does not, you can ask for one.
Receipt: access.place product summary, 4 October 2026
Sign language in the cinema, using access.place's patent-pending in-cinema assistive technology.
Receipt: company fact; wording given by Roland, 4 October 2026
A recorded signer does not replace an interpreter at a doctor's visit. It covers what is the same for everyone, so interpreters can go where only a person will do.
If you are hard of hearing
You may not sign. You can still follow.
Not everyone who loses hearing uses a sign language. You can read it in easy words. You can also hear it read aloud, and choose how fast.
Point your phone at a place or a sign. It can come three ways: in sign language, as audio, or in easy words. You choose.
Receipt: access.place home page and /for/community, 4 October 2026
Made by Deaf creators
Sign it. Your name is on it.
Every signer is a real Deaf creator, credited by name. You can be one. If you are Deaf, you can tell your own story in your sign language. Choose a place that matters to you. Record what happened there, in your own words.
Your display name appears with your work wherever it is shown. You can withdraw a recording at any time from its own page, and it stops being served immediately.
Receipt: access.place privacy policy, updated 8 September 2026
Where writing gets in the way
Five places we are opening.
The clinic
What happens. Triage, consent and discharge arrive in writing.
What changes. A signed version of each one.
The city office
What happens. A notice on a wall, or a letter.
What changes. The notice read in sign language.
The school
What happens. A timetable and exam rules in writing.
What changes. The same in sign language.
The station
What happens. A gate changes. The announcement is spoken.
What changes. The message as text, and a signed guide for the way.
The cinema
What happens. Captions run on the screen.
What changes. Sign language in the glasses at the same time.
Your sign language
Every country has its own.
There is no single sign language for the whole world. Choose your country to get the site in its written language and its sign language.
We hold nothing about you.
If you are watching, access.place holds nothing about you. Apps identify themselves with a key, not you, and what an app asked for, such as your coordinates or the text you photographed, is never written down.
Receipt: access.place privacy policy, updated 8 September 2026