Sign language
Point the app at what you are watching. A signer appears, in sync, in your own sign language.
Community
Made with us. Paying us. In our language.
Access here is made by Deaf and disabled people, not for them. Creators are credited by name and paid for their work.
This page in sign language
Signed end-to-end by a Deaf creator — this page must exist in sign language before anything else does. International Sign for the global site; your national sign language on your country page. Signed by a Deaf creator, credited by name.
I want access
Watch. Understand. Belong.
In plain words
If you are Deaf, hard of hearing, blind or low-vision: this is what exists today, honestly. The app that shows sign language, captions or description on top of what you are watching is in private testing. Join the list and we will tell you when it opens near you.
Captions
Human captions in your written language, timed to the content — for the hard of hearing and anyone who wants them.
Audio description
Description that carries the story, for blind and low-vision viewers. Works with your screen reader and your ears.
Where it is at
The app is in private testing with partner communities. It is not yet in public app stores. We say so plainly because a promise you cannot use is not access.
I create access
Create. Get paid. Be seen.
In plain words
If you sign, caption, describe or interpret, you can make access on this platform and be paid for it. You keep your name on your work. The first creators are shaping how payment works.
Who can contribute
- Deaf signers Interpret films, lessons, news, public information — in your sign language.
- Interpreters and CODAs Professional and community interpreters, credited as such.
- Captioners Human captions in the written language of your market.
- Audio describers Description that carries the story for blind and low-vision viewers.
How it works, honestly
- You record or write the access track for a piece of content.
- a11y handles storage, sync and delivery to every screen that asks for it.
- You are credited by name wherever it plays, and paid for it.
The payment model is being set with the first creators, in the open. No numbers are printed here until they are real.
See what making one looks like
The creator side, not the buyer side — this is the work, and what you are paid for.
Creator stories
In their own words.
Creators tell their own stories, in their own sign language, under their own names. Captioned, described and transcribed. No one speaks for the community here.
Creator story — recording
A named Deaf creator, in their own words and their own sign language.
For organisations
Deaf associations, blind groups, PWD federations.
You are the validators and the channel. Bring a11y to your city or country: we share power, credit and pay with the community, and we say what is real.
- Your members become paid creators in their own sign language.
- Your city or agency gets a technical partner, not a vendor.
- Your community's page opens only when a local Deaf creator has signed it.
About 70 million Deaf people worldwide use a sign language as their first or preferred language.
Receipt: World Federation of the Deaf
A telco-funded 2021 pilot brought the platform to a Deaf school community of about 800 users.
Receipt: company fact