3 ms·
Taking those videos off YT will make things worse in terms of the inequality of deaf people. YT at least has an ability to automatically generate subtitle. It i
by chajath 10y ago
Taking those videos off YT will make things worse in terms of the inequality of deaf people. YT at least has an ability to automatically generate subtitle. It is not perfect, for sure, but is still better than nothing
- znpy 10y agoHaving partially-accessible content is still better than having no content at all.
- hinfaits 10y agoI believe it was explicitly ruled in the courts that Youtube's automated captions were not up to the standard required by the ADA. Not sure where I read that, but it was probably on HN somewhere.
- st3v3r 10y agoNo, YT's automatic captioning is absolute trash. It most definitely is worse than nothing.
- Myrmornis 10y agoHi, this statement is objectively, entirely, incorrect. I assume you are talking about English. I have used YouTube's subtitles on Berkeley's lectures, and they are almost entirely correct; the errors that are present do not impede understanding. E.g. in a math lecture if a lecturer sees x with a subscript zero, and they say "x naught", YouTube captions might say "x not".