Việt Nam · Vietnam
Xin chào. Đây là câu chuyện của chúng tôi.
The law promised sign language in 2010. Deaf adults delivered it.
Access on this page: Signed: Vietnamese sign languages — pending How this page is tested
Law 51/2010/QH12, passed on 17 June 2010 and in force from 1 January 2011, says it plainly: Deaf and hard-of-hearing learners shall learn in classes using sign language — Article 27 — and Vietnam Television shall air programmes with Vietnamese subtitles and sign language — Article 43. For a decade the promise mostly sat there; in 2017 one count found ten interpreters for the whole country. Then Deaf adults did the delivering. In a national project that closed in September 2022, almost 400 Deaf adults trained as sign-language educators taught nearly 2,000 Deaf children across 20 provinces, with 4,000 signs and 150 video lessons — and a 97% pass rate. The Ministry of Education authorised their materials nationwide. The law is ours. The delivery, we have already shown.
Sign language video — this story, in our language
A named Vietnamese Deaf creator tells this page's story in their own sign language — Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City or Haiphong, credited as such. 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.
The law wrote it in 2010. Deaf adults delivered the classroom.
Now we deliver the screen — ourselves.
What do you want to do?
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I want access
Watch.Understand.Belong.
Television, film, and services — in Vietnamese sign languages, 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 put Article 43 on every 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 Vietnam today
The law now says:
Deaf and hard-of-hearing learners shall learn in classes using sign language — Law 51/2010/QH12, Article 27, since 1 January 2011. Vietnam Television shall air programmes with Vietnamese subtitles and sign language — Article 43. The state sets national standards for sign language — Article 49. And since 2022 the Ministry of Education has authorised, nationwide, the sign-language materials that almost 400 Deaf adults built and taught.
And we know the hard math: Vietnam has three sign languages — Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Haiphong — and in 2017 one count found ten interpreters for the whole country. Article 43 says 'as regulated by the Ministry'; only a handful of bulletins have ever been signed.
Deaf adults delivered the classroom. The screen comes next — made by us. That is what ally is: Deaf and blind creators, paid to make the access — Vietnamese sign languages, 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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