México · Mexico
Hola. Esta es nuestra historia.
In 2020 a judge gave the government 24 hours. It found the interpreters.
Access on this page: Signed: Lengua de Señas Mexicana — pending How this page is tested
Mexico recognised Lengua de Señas Mexicana in law in 2005, and on 30 May 2011 made it a national language and part of the nation's linguistic heritage — Article 14 of the General Law for the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities. Since 2014 broadcast law has required sign language or subtitles in at least one segment of one high-audience news programme. Then a pandemic arrived with daily briefings and no interpreter. On 16 March 2020 Erik Arellano Hernández, for the Coalición de Personas Sordas, filed an emergency amparo. On 17 March a federal judge granted it: the absence of information in LSM put Deaf lives at risk, and the health ministry had 24 hours to put interpreters on its press conferences and name the hospitals that could communicate in LSM. That day, the briefings were signed. The law is ours. The delivery took a judge — and a day.
LSM video — this story, in our language
A named Mexican Deaf creator tells this page's story in LSM. The video is the page, and the text is its transcript's cousin. This video existing is the reason this page is allowed to exist.
A national language since 2011.
It took a court order to put it on the news. We are building the version that does not.
What do you want to do?
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I want access
Watch.Understand.Belong.
Television, film, and services — in LSM, captions, or audio description.
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I create access
Create.Get paid.Be seen.
Deaf signers, interpreters, captioners, audio describers — your work, your name, your income.
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I provide access
One API.Every screen.
Platforms, governments, cinemas, companies — deliver real access with one integration.
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I back access
Host.Sponsor.Invest.
The builders who will make the signed briefing the rule, not the court order — be part of the firsts.
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More than one of these can be yours. The access is for you, and you can be paid to help make it.
Access in Mexico today
When we fight, Mexico's own courts agree with us.
LSM is a national language and part of Mexico's linguistic heritage — Article 14, in force since 30 May 2011; first recognised in law on 10 June 2005. Television concessionaires must carry subtitles, dubbing or LSM in at least one segment of one of their highest-audience news programmes — Article 161 of the broadcasting law, since 2014. And on 17 March 2020 a federal judge ruled that leaving Deaf people out of emergency information puts their lives at risk.
And we know the exhausting part: one segment of one bulletin is the legal minimum, and even the court-ordered interpreter was first shown in a box smaller than the rules require. A national language that appears when a judge insists is not yet a delivered one.
The court gave the government 24 hours, and it worked. The delivery comes next — made by us. That is what ally is: Deaf and blind creators, paid to make the access — LSM, captions, audio description — delivered to any screen.
In plain words
The law is on your side. What is missing is the service — and that is what gets built here, with the community.
Why captions alone are not enough → Why sign language
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