Church Deaf Church Website Template
Silent Word
A website for a church where American Sign Language is the first language and English comes second. Everything is built for eyes: the livestream leads, every contact route is visual (videophone, text, email), and the copy is written in short, plain sentences because many members read English as a second language.
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- Built for
- Deaf adults and families in the Rochester area; Deaf and hard-of-hearing students at RIT/NTID; DeafBlind members and their support providers; hearing spouses, children of Deaf adults and parents of Deaf children.
- Navigation
- Floating dock. Navigation floats in a dock at the bottom of the screen, where thumbs and eyes already are.
Names, photos, times and stories in this template are sample content. Your version uses your own words, photos and branding.
Why it looks this way.
- Typography
Hanken Grotesk is a plain, compact sans with nothing to decode, set heavy and tight for headlines that read in one glance. Lexend carries the reading. It was developed with reading researchers to reduce visual crowding, and here many readers process English as a second language after ASL. Body text is 18px and lines are kept short.
- Hanken Grotesk headlines
- Lexend body text
- Color
Turquoise, deep blue and yellow come from the Deaf flag that hangs behind the stage. Turquoise leads; the yellow is kept for buttons on coloured bands and for the live badge, where it has to be found instantly. The dark theme exists for evening viewing of the stream and keeps the same three colors, lifted for contrast.
- Page
#ECF3F2 - Cards
#FFFFFF - Text
#0E1C2C - Brand
#006A74 - Accent
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- Page
- Layout
Navigation lives in a dock at the bottom of the screen with an icon and a word for every page, because most members arrive on a phone, often straight from a video call. Six pages, each named for what you do there: Watch, Visit, Access, Groups, Talk with us.
Pages: Home, Watch, Visit, Access, Groups, Talk with us
- Hero
The home page opens on the Sunday livestream, with the signer on screen and the service chapters listed beside it. For a Deaf congregation, seeing the worship is the welcome. The chapter list lets someone jump straight to the sermon, and the stream badge says plainly whether captions and voice interpreting are on.
- Calls to action
The button in the top bar is Video-call a pastor, not a phone number, because a phone number is a closed door for most of this congregation. Other actions are just as concrete: Watch in ASL, Request access support, Sign up for ASL class. No action anywhere on the site needs hearing or a voice.
- Photography
The photographs are of hands and faces signing, in good light, because ASL is read from the face as much as from the hands. We chose images where expressions are clear and hands are in frame, and avoided any image that frames deafness as something to fix.
- Accessibility
Every video is captioned and has an ASL original. Contact routes are videophone, text and email, never voice-only. Color contrast passes AA in both themes, nothing depends on sound, and motion is minimal and respects reduced-motion settings, which also helps members with Usher syndrome and low vision.
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