A sign language cannot be served by a text translation at all. eBible is a text pool, so
its silence for a Deaf group describes OUR SEARCH, not their need — and the sheet was
reporting it as "Scripture · none found" exactly as it does for a spoken language. That
is the map telling a true-sounding thing that misleads.
Sign languages are now flagged in the pin build and the sheet says so: what counts for
them is Scripture FILMED in that sign language, and the text pool was never the right
place to look. Counts are computed, not typed — 150 sign languages on the map covering
84,159,050 people, and the copy reads "none yet has both" only while that is true, since
it is generated from the same pins the layer draws.
THE SCALE: 234 pins on 150 sign languages, 183 of them with nothing found, 0 with both a
film and a text Scripture. 13 have a JESUS Film through Arclight and 1 has Open Bible
Stories through Door43; everything else is empty.
★ A NOTE LEFT IN THE BUILD FOR WHOEVER FILLS THIS GAP. The largest producer of
sign-language Bible content by a wide margin is the Watchtower/JW organisation, which is
excluded by standing rule — added canon. Anyone researching this will meet jw.org first
and it will look like the obvious answer. The legitimate partners are the Deaf Bible
Society and DOOR International, and both need credentials this build does not have:
deafbible.com is a key-gated app, doorinternational.org answers 403. sign.bible is NOT a
source — it is a parked domain listed for sale, which a status-code check would have
happily accepted as live.
No sign-language resource is added here, because none could be verified. What changed is
that the map stops implying the absence was measured against the right pool.
Verified on the served tree with a negative control: the note renders for Deaf Nicaraguan
(Nicaraguan Sign Language, ncs) and does NOT render for German, so it discriminates
rather than always firing. The rendered counts match the build's own tally exactly. Pins,
deep-link, filter, gap-list and language-naming probes all still pass.
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