Accessibility infrastructure

Access, made by the community.

Deaf and disabled creators make sign language, captions and audio description. Your platform delivers it with one API.

Talk to us Join as a creator

This page in sign language

International Sign for the global site — that is the goal, and the first recording may be in American Sign Language until we have an International Sign presenter. Your own national sign language is on your country page. Signed by a Deaf creator, credited by name.

International Sign Captions + transcript ship with the video. Read this instead

Which one is you?

  • I want access

    Watch.Understand.Belong.

    For Deaf, hard of hearing, blind and low-vision people. What exists today and how to get it.

    Go

  • I create access

    Create.Get paid.Be seen.

    Signers, captioners, audio describers, interpreters. Make access in your language and be paid for it.

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  • I need to provide access

    One API.Every screen.

    Platforms, broadcasters, cities, services. Deliver sign language, captions and audio description to your own users.

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Do you write laws or run a city? I make policy

The challenge

Captions are not enough.

Most Deaf people sign first. Written words come second — or not at all. Here is why, with receipts.

In plain words

Many Deaf people never got the chance to learn to read well. Captions also go by fast. So a video with captions can still be impossible to follow. Sign language is the language that works.

Up to ~90%

The WFD's global survey estimates up to ~90% of Deaf people never attended school; sign-language-medium education existed in only 23 of 93 countries surveyed.

Receipt: WFD global survey (2009)

About 4th grade

The median deaf school-leaver in the best-resourced deaf-education system reads at about a fourth-grade level.

Receipt: Traxler 2000

140–230 words a minute

Captions run at 140–230 words per minute; median Deaf comprehension is around 100–140 — and comprehension falls as caption rate rises.

Receipt: Jensema 1998; Burnham 2008; Tyler 2009

Compliant isn't the same as understood.

Read the full argument

How it works

Made by people. Delivered by code.

In plain words

Deaf creators make the sign language. Our service sends it to your app or screen. It plays on top of the video, in sync.

  1. Creators make it

    Deaf and disabled creators sign, caption and describe real content — and are paid for it.

  2. One API delivers it

    Your app or site asks for a track. We return sign language, captions or audio description, in sync with the content.

  3. It appears on your screens

    Over the content your viewers already have. We never re-host or touch your files.

What an integration looks like — one request. Illustrative shape; the live reference is on the developers page.
# Ask for the tracks that exist for a piece of content.
GET /v1/tracks?content=sha256:7f3a…&lang=ssp   # one ISO code per sign language — there is no universal one

# Response
{
  "tracks": [
    { "type": "sign-language", "lang": "ssp", "creator": "credited by name" },
    { "type": "captions",      "lang": "es" },
    { "type": "audio-description", "lang": "en" }
  ]
}
See it working: a11y demo Captions: auto-generated, human pending Transcript: pending Sign language: pending

All demos — sign language, captions, audio description

Proof, not promises

What is real today.

Honest about stage. Every line has a receipt, and every story is written so any city, platform or community can reuse it.

Pattern

A city writes access into law

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 a11y as technical partner.

Receipt: Parañaque City Council records

Where this is happening

Pattern

A school community, signed

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

Where this is happening

Pattern

A global brand starts early

The pattern for any league, broadcaster or brand: sign language for fans, delivered over content they already publish.

Selected by Real Madrid Next from 800+ applicants (under 1%); early-phase integration with the Real Madrid Foundation.

Receipt: company fact

Where this is happening

Each pattern is a local story with the place abstracted out — the problem, what happened, the benefit — so it can be reused anywhere. The specifics, and the places, live on the country pages.

See all patterns and the five signals we count in public

The moment

The law is already here.

Accessibility is written into law in more and more places. Cities are joining in. The gap is between what the law requires and what people actually understand.

The mandate is the market.

For governments and legislators

The European Accessibility Act has been in force since June 2025.

Receipt: EU Directive 2019/882

Two city ordinances — one on healthcare accessibility, one on cinema accessibility — have passed first reading, with a11y as technical partner.

Receipt: Parañaque City Council records

In their own words

A creator, by name.

One Deaf creator, in their own sign language, on what this work means to them. Captioned, described and transcribed. A new creator each month.

Meet the community

Creator story — recording

A named Deaf creator, in their own words and their own sign language. Captions, audio description and transcript included.

The creator's own sign language Captions + transcript ship with the video. Read this instead