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> The fact that even after twenty seven years organisations chose to ignore the law shows the contempt that organisations have for people with disabilities. I
by zeveb 10y ago
> The fact that even after twenty seven years organisations chose to ignore the law shows the contempt that organisations have for people with disabilities.
It costs roughly $1 for a professor to prop his camera up at the back of a room and record himself speaking for an hour, then post it online (11GB @ 3¢/GB = 33¢; we'll add double that for bandwidth &c.); it costs $180-$600 to close-caption that video. The ADA turns lecture videos from something anyone can do to something basically no-one will do.
Yes, life sucks when one's deaf. Yes, it'd be awesome for every organisation to have the resources to close-caption every recorded lecture. But requiring every recorded lecture to be close-captioned merely ensures that to a first order of approximation no lecture will be close-captioned.
- toss1941 10y agoWelcome to the unintended consequences of government regulations. This is exactly what many "anti-regulation" people rail against, but examples like this are rarely brought up by "pro-regulation" arguments.
- reddytowns 10y ago> But requiring every recorded lecture to be close-captioned merely ensures that to a first order of approximation no lecture will be close-captioned. Huh? I do not follow
- DanBC 10y agoI agree that it's immensely frustrating that Youtube's auto-captioning isn't good enough for DoJ.
- neilcrj 10y ago> it costs $180-$600 to close-caption that video It's a public university. They could pay a grateful student a federally-subsidized wage to transcribe 5 hours of video per week, and have it count toward the University's community service quota.
- occamsrazorwit 10y ago> It costs roughly $1 for a professor to prop his camera up at the back of a room and record himself speaking for an hour... it costs $180-$600 to close-caption that video. No, both of your figures are wrong. I actually worked in UC Berkeley lecture recording and captioning, and the figures are on the order of magnitude of $10/hour for each. The problem lies in the massive backlog of older courses that would need to be captioned for only a few non-students per course.
- zeveb 10y agoI got my figures for close-captioning from http://www.automaticsync.com/captionsync/closed-captioning-cost/ http://www.automaticsync.com/captionsync/closed-captioning-c... And a 10x increase is still large, although perhaps not prohibitively large.
- occamsrazorwit 10y agoI see, but that website is clearly biased as they're trying to sell their product. Also, they don't even use correct math which makes me even more certain they're just making up numbers. They mention that other places cost $1/minute, and they claim that half of that cost is $3.33/hr. ???
- shkkmo 10y agoI believe you had a lapse in reading comprehension. > To add it all up, an untrained captioner could easily spend eight to ten times the length of a video to create a timed caption file. Let’s call it 9X on average, meaning that each minute of video takes nine minutes for this beginner to caption. $1 / min of video * 1/2 = $0.50 / min of video 1 min of video = 9 min of transcription time $0.50 / 9 min of transcription time = $3.33 / hour of transcription time