For travel and tourism

A guide for every visitor.

Signed: International Sign — pending How this page is tested

A Deaf visitor walks into your museum or heritage site. The tour is spoken. The labels are in one written language. They see the place. They do not get the story.

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This page in sign language

For museum, heritage and tourism teams. International Sign for the global site; your national sign language on your country page. Signed by a Deaf creator, credited by name.

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The problem, in your words

The story is spoken or written.

In plain words

Many Deaf visitors do not read the local written language well. That is about how they were taught, not about what they can do. A spoken tour does not reach them. A label may not either. Sign language does.

A place can be open to everyone, and still not be understood.

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 your place gets

Your place, told by a Deaf guide.

  • Here

    Your place opens in access.place. A Deaf guide tells its story in sign language. Visitors can also choose to listen, or to read in easy words.

  • Written

    A visitor points a phone at a label, a sign or a leaflet. If a signed version exists, it opens. If it does not, they can ask for one.

  • Made by people

    Every guide is a real Deaf creator, credited by name. A reviewer checks each one. There are no signing avatars.

A recorded guide does not replace a live interpreter for a private visit. It covers the tour that is the same for everyone, so your interpreters go where only a person will do.

Where this is today

Live now. In the US, New York is first.

Here is live now. In the United States, New York is the first city.

Receipt: access.place, Roland Benzon, 4 October 2026

Your place can be one of the first in your country.

Next step

Tell us the place. We tell you what it takes.

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