Good news for Deaf World Cup fans! You can enjoy to watch the Latest World Cup Football News in International Sign Language at the Official FIFA website. You can know what will happened in the matches which you prefer to support team!Once every four years, the world is gripped by football fever. Now, many football fans went to the South Atrica and support their country's team~ I remembered about I also watched the World Cup with my dad and sisters on last 4 years ago. We always support South Korea, Japan, England and Holland when we watched the matches in TV Astro! World Cup never have sign language service on last time.. Now, its change and surprise deaf community about they offer the international sign language! It's cool!
When you access the Official FIFA website, you can see the menu at top and notice an icon "Sign Language Interpreted".
It’s pretty good, and well organized. Sometimes, the stream video take long time to be view...But, sometimes it go down after the matches finished.
FIFA.com to broadcast International Sign video reports
For the first time, the Official Website of FIFA and the FIFA World Cup is enabling deaf and people with hearing impairments across the globe to follow all 64 matches of world football’s showpiece event even more comprehensively.
International Sign, also known as IS, is an international auxiliary language used at international meetings such as the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) Congress and events such as the Deaflympics.
“Football is a universal sport and it must be accessible to everyone. We are therefore delighted to be offering this service for people with hearing impairments and the deaf.” FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter
The WFD represents approximately 70 million deaf people worldwide, which assists in making sign language available to deaf people, especially regarding matters of education and information.
"Football is a universal sport and it must be accessible to everyone. We are therefore delighted to be offering this service for people with hearing impairments and the deaf," said FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter. "By producing these video reports with International Sign, FIFA is serving the needs of over 70 million people."
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