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Aren't we neglecting people with deafblindness? Hearing-enabled and deaf people should be blocked from accessing all online courses until the videos are transla

Aren't we neglecting people with deafblindness? Hearing-enabled and deaf people should be blocked from accessing all online courses until the videos are translated into braille.

garysieling 10y ago
If you have closed captions, that should not be an issue, because letters map to braille characters.
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- nnutter 10y ago
  For those not familiar, there are braille displays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display
- klipt 10y ago
  > braille characters No matter what you do, there'll always be some group who can't access the content. E.g. people who are deaf, blind, and had both hands amputated.
  - garysieling 10y ago
    Yes, and yet Stephen Hawking is still able to write books. For the Hacker News audience, I would think every barrier should present at least an interesting technical or business challenge. I tend to agree with the other commenters that this seems like a good project for crowdsourcing because it's something many people do care a lot about, although I can see how that might not satisfy ADA compliance. For all the talk about these types of issues, it seems to be very rare for tech conference videos to be captioned, see: https://www.findlectures.com/?p=1&type1=Conference&talk_type_l2_Conference=Software https://www.findlectures.com/?p=1&type1=Conference&talk_type... I think this is potentially a good area to explore collectively - any technology solutions that make accessibility cheaper would feed back to places like UC Berkeley.
- akinalci 10y ago
  You're right. Damn it Berkeley, you could have just recruited some eager undergrads to caption the videos. Do the captions need to meet a very high standard of quality? If not, automated captioning would have been a good student project.

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Aren't we neglecting people with deafblindness? Hearing-enabled and deaf people should be blocked from accessing all online courses until the videos are transla

by akinalci 10y ago

Aren't we neglecting people with deafblindness? Hearing-enabled and deaf people should be blocked from accessing all online courses until the videos are translated into braille.

garysieling 10y ago
If you have closed captions, that should not be an issue, because letters map to braille characters.
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- nnutter 10y ago
  For those not familiar, there are braille displays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display
- klipt 10y ago
  > braille characters No matter what you do, there'll always be some group who can't access the content. E.g. people who are deaf, blind, and had both hands amputated.
  - garysieling 10y ago
    Yes, and yet Stephen Hawking is still able to write books. For the Hacker News audience, I would think every barrier should present at least an interesting technical or business challenge. I tend to agree with the other commenters that this seems like a good project for crowdsourcing because it's something many people do care a lot about, although I can see how that might not satisfy ADA compliance. For all the talk about these types of issues, it seems to be very rare for tech conference videos to be captioned, see: https://www.findlectures.com/?p=1&type1=Conference&talk_type_l2_Conference=Software https://www.findlectures.com/?p=1&type1=Conference&talk_type... I think this is potentially a good area to explore collectively - any technology solutions that make accessibility cheaper would feed back to places like UC Berkeley.
- akinalci 10y ago
  You're right. Damn it Berkeley, you could have just recruited some eager undergrads to caption the videos. Do the captions need to meet a very high standard of quality? If not, automated captioning would have been a good student project.