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> The video takes 20 minutes It's a 13 minute video and at 2x, I watched and read it in less than 7 minutes. This was a comfortable reading pace for me and I'm

> The video takes 20 minutes It's a 13 minute video and at 2x, I watched and read it in less than 7 minutes. This was a comfortable reading pace for me and I'm not sure I could have read it any faster had it been an article with pictures or embedded video (probably slower, since I'd have to interrupt my reading to play the videos separately). Even at 1x speed, I'm not sure where the other 7 minutes to make this a 20 minute video are coming from. When I originally read your comment, I assumed the "irony" was that it was all audio about being deaf/HOH-friendly -- especially since you said "I'm not somewhere I can listen" -- but since it had subtitles, I just wanted to add that information to ensure that other people weren't similarly misled.

olliej 8y ago
Haha, my bad for not checking the time - I’d swear I read 20, but I’m also fairly certain no one edited and reposted the video in the intervening time :D The irony was that the value proposition benefited people with hearing over those with limited or none. I’m going to try and just list very simple issues with your “read the subtitles” vs my “write an article” desire: * reading a subtitles is slower than reading block text, both due to implicit blocking that most people use while reading (vs explicit blocking of trained speed readers). * reading is outright harder due to the text being on moving backgrounds (this is probably limiting your comfortable reading speed). * the video is meant to be providing relevant examples, but this means you are forcing the reader to try and do two visually demanding tasks at once: reading the text, and watching the video, and by default the text is overlaid on top of the video. This also further contributes to the slower than normal reading speed. * bandwidth: to read the subtitles I need to be watching, and therefore downloading, the video, and the audio. Also it means I’m downloading video content that I have literally no need for: the graphics that fill in the time between examples. Note I’m not attacking the content, but rather than presentation of that content.

olliej 8y ago

Haha, my bad for not checking the time - I’d swear I read 20, but I’m also fairly certain no one edited and reposted the video in the intervening time :D The irony was that the value proposition benefited people with hearing over those with limited or none. I’m going to try and just list very simple issues with your “read the subtitles” vs my “write an article” desire: * reading a subtitles is slower than reading block text, both due to implicit blocking that most people use while reading (vs explicit blocking of trained speed readers). * reading is outright harder due to the text being on moving backgrounds (this is probably limiting your comfortable reading speed). * the video is meant to be providing relevant examples, but this means you are forcing the reader to try and do two visually demanding tasks at once: reading the text, and watching the video, and by default the text is overlaid on top of the video. This also further contributes to the slower than normal reading speed. * bandwidth: to read the subtitles I need to be watching, and therefore downloading, the video, and the audio. Also it means I’m downloading video content that I have literally no need for: the graphics that fill in the time between examples. Note I’m not attacking the content, but rather than presentation of that content.