> In the case of captioning the videos, the captioning costs several times more than putting up the videos in the first place. Probably on the order of 100x mor

> In the case of captioning the videos, the captioning costs several times more than putting up the videos in the first place. Probably on the order of 100x more Automatic caption creation is coming on in leaps, well beyond what YouTube is achieving already. The quality is startlingly good in some cases, certainly good enough to allow a (crowd-sourced) editing pass. The cost is nothing, nothing like 100x. Hell, the BBC has a project that will automatically translate content into other languages [0], and they have that publishing to a live site without editorial intervention. If the will is there, these things are eminently possible. The ADA is trying to make sure the will is there. [0] http://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/projects/alto/ http://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/projects/alto/