臺灣 · Taiwan
你好。這是我們的故事。
A national language since 2019. Seen daily in 2020.
Access on this page: Signed: Taiwan Sign Language — pending How this page is tested
On 25 December 2018 the Legislative Yuan passed the Development of National Languages Act, in force from 9 January 2019: the natural languages of Taiwan's peoples — and Taiwan Sign Language, named in the Act — are national languages, with the right to use them in accessing public services. A year later the whole country watched it work. Through 2020 the Central Epidemic Command Center briefed the public almost daily, a TSL interpreter beside the commander and subtitles on the stream — for most people, the first time they had seen Taiwan Sign Language every day. The law is ours. The screens beyond the briefing room still are not.
TSL video — this story, in our language
A named Taiwanese Deaf creator tells this page's story in TSL. 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, and a year when everyone saw it.
Now we make it every day — ourselves.
What do you want to do?
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I want access
Watch.Understand.Belong.
Television, film, and services — in TSL, 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 take a national language past the briefing room — 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 Taiwan today
The law now says:
Taiwan Sign Language is a national language — Development of National Languages Act, since 9 January 2019 — and citizens have the right to use national languages in accessing public services. In 2020 the Central Epidemic Command Center showed what that looks like: a TSL interpreter at every briefing, subtitles on every stream.
And we know the exhausting part: a right to use our language with public services is not a duty to sign the news, the film, the platform. When the briefing room closed, the daily interpreter went with it.
The language is national. The delivery comes next — made by us. That is what ally is: Deaf and blind creators, paid to make the access — TSL, 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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