السعودية · Saudi Arabia
مرحباً. هذه قصتنا.
Since 2023, refusing us is a crime in Saudi Arabia. The screens are still silent.
Access on this page: Signed: Saudi Sign Language — pending How this page is tested
On 22 August 2023 the Council of Ministers approved, and on 27 August the King decreed, the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Law — 33 articles, published on 8 September 2023. Article 2 makes alternative communication, sign language named, a duty. Article 14 gives us the right to access written, visual and audio content. Article 22 makes assault or discrimination punishable by up to two years in prison or a fine of up to 500,000 riyals, doubled where the victim is a child; Article 26 fines organisations the same, doubled on repeat. Enforcement sits with the Authority for the Care of Persons with Disabilities and the Public Prosecution. The law is ours, with teeth. The screen that Article 14 promises is what we build.
Saudi Sign Language video — this story, in our language
A named Saudi Deaf creator tells this page's story in Saudi Sign Language. 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 right to visual and audio content, backed by a prison sentence.
Now the content — made by us.
What do you want to do?
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I want access
Watch.Understand.Belong.
Television, film, and services — in Saudi Sign Language, 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 turn Article 14 into a signed and described screen — 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 Saudi Arabia today
The law now says:
Communication with persons with disabilities by alternative and appropriate means, sign language among them — Article 2. The right to access and benefit from written, visual and audio content — Article 14. Assault, physical, moral or material: up to two years in prison or 500,000 riyals — Article 22; for organisations, up to 500,000 riyals, doubled on repeat — Article 26. Rights of Persons with Disabilities Law, Royal Decree M/27, 27 August 2023.
And we know the exhausting part: 'visual and audio content' is a right without a quota. No article yet says which bulletin, which film, which platform — and the region's 'unified' sign language still competes with Saudi Sign Language for the interpreter's chair.
The penalty is written. The delivery comes next — made by us. That is what ally is: Deaf and blind creators, paid to make the access — Saudi Sign Language, 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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