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> because people excuse themselves from their obligation to provide accessibly What obligation? They're not even obligated to put the video up; it's just a ges
by jolmg 8y ago
> because people excuse themselves from their obligation to provide accessibly
What obligation? They're not even obligated to put the video up; it's just a gesture of public service. Giving people the obligation to put captions when they upload videos for free consumption is like giving a beggar part of your lunch out of generosity and he complaining that he likes his sandwiches with more cheese.
Not to specifically liken the deaf and hard of hearing to beggars, since all YouTube viewers are beggars in my analogy. However, the point I'm getting at is that when someone does you a favor like upload a video for free for your consumption you should generally be grateful and do what you can with it, not complain and demand more. It's just not the right attitude.
It's like FOSS. You can ask the developer for more, but not demand it.
I think if we want more captions from videos submitted without remuneration, it's gonna need to be automated. Have the machine do the work. I think YouTube already does this, now that I think about it.
EDIT: Added some more on the analogy in case people thought I had something against deaf people.
- bobthepanda 8y agoYou don't even need automation, that's why we have platforms like Mechanical Turk. In fact I would be very surprised if people were not already using gig platforms like that for captioning already.
- monetus 8y agocorrect me if i'm wrong, but its not the advertisers paying the mechanical turk?
- sjwright 8y agoA better analogy would be offering your sandwich to a beggar only to be told that your sandwich is unacceptable because I have a gluten intolerance; therefore you are now obligated to buy me a sandwich made with gluten free bread.
- elil17 8y agoDHH (d/Deaf or hard of hearing) person demanding captions is like a wanting extra cheese is wrong. It’s more like your giving a sandwich to every beggar except the Deaf one. And eventually that Deaf beggar will starve. Deaf people have significantly less access to public discourse. I think it’s the responsibility of every person engaged in public discourse to make their content accessible.