A source
Named, dated, and linked. A figure without a source is not a figure.
Impact
Five signals. Counted in public.
Access on this page: Signed: International Sign — pending How this page is tested
This page in sign language
Signed end to end by a Deaf creator, credited by name. International Sign on the global site; your national sign language on your country page.
Not a case for why us. A snapshot of what is real, updated as it moves. A zero here is a real zero.
The meter
In plain words
We count five things and show them even when they are zero: how big the community is, how much the platform is used, money in and out, laws moved, and agreements signed.
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Community
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Creators on the platform, content made, audience reached.
Counting in public from launch. A 2021 pilot reached about 800 users; today's creator number is being re-verified before we print it.
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Usage
0 public sessions
Sessions, minutes watched, API requests.
Zero until the first public integration is live.
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Money
0 paid in · paid out
Paid in by customers. Paid out to creators.
Nothing paid in yet. Research so far was grant-supported.
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Law
2 first readings
Ordinances advanced with ally as technical partner.
Two city ordinances — healthcare access and cinema access — both past first reading. Details on the country page.
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Agreements
0 signed
Signed budgets and contracts, at home and abroad.
Letters and discussions do not count. Signatures do.
A snapshot — the case gets made weekly, in signals. Zeros are real zeros: we count in public. Updated 2026-08-24.
How we count
What a receipt has to have.
In plain words
A claim gets onto this site only if we can say where it came from. Every number links to its source. If we cannot source it, we leave the space empty and say we are still looking.
A measure
What it counts, and what it does not. Surveys that ask people and clinics that test people give different numbers.
A stage
Grant-funded research is not a deployment. A first reading is not an ordinance. We say which.
What has actually happened
Three things, each with a receipt.
Patterns we can replicate, not a portfolio. Each names who funded it and how far it got.
Public research funding
ally's pre-operating research and development was supported by a national science research grant and a city government grant.
Receipt: company fact
A Deaf school community
A telco-funded 2021 pilot brought the platform to a Deaf school community of about 800 users.
Receipt: company fact
City ordinances
Two city ordinances — one on healthcare accessibility, one on cinema accessibility — have passed first reading, with ally as technical partner.
Receipt: Parañaque City Council records
Two of these are research and one is legislation in progress. None is a finished national deployment, and this page will say so until one is. The places and the local law live on each country page.
Patterns, proven locally
Every story, written so you can reuse it.
Each local story is abstracted into the problem, what happened and the benefit. The receipt stays precise; the place lives on the country page.
In plain words
These are real things that happened in real places. We describe each one as a pattern — the problem, what was done, what it gave people — so a city, school or company anywhere can see whether it fits them.
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 ally 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 ally as technical partner.
Receipt: Parañaque City Council records
Pattern
Public research money de-risks the build
- Problem
- Accessibility infrastructure rarely gets funded before it earns revenue.
- What happened
- Pre-operating research and development was supported by a national science grant and a city grant.
- Benefit
- The platform exists before the first contract. Buyers pay for a service, not for research.
ally's pre-operating research and development was supported by a national science research grant and a city government grant.
Receipt: company fact
Pattern
A school community, signed
- Problem
- Deaf students get captions they cannot follow, on content they cannot skip.
- What happened
- A telco-funded pilot brought the platform to a Deaf school community of about 800 users.
- Benefit
- Real usage, real feedback, and the model for any school or district that wants signed content on what students already watch.
A telco-funded 2021 pilot brought the platform to a Deaf school community of about 800 users.
Receipt: company fact
Policy
Writing an accessibility law?
We will share what worked — ordinance language, budget logic, the service behind it.
Two first readings
Two city ordinances — one on healthcare accessibility, one on cinema accessibility — have passed first reading, with ally as technical partner.
Receipt: Parañaque City Council records