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so that google can make money on their content?

• rckoepke 7y ago
  Context is important. This is Berkeley. They can do text to speech at an inconsequential cost. Other websites probably not so much. It's important to acknowledge economic/technical realities separately from value systems. We can disagree on whether a society should provide for their blind members. But it's harder to disagree on the proposition that Stanford can definitely provide subtitles for these videos without sacrificing anything of consequence on their end. It's also difficult to disagree on the proposition that requiring this of all individual bloggers would be an onerous requirement on them. It's also important that Berkeley is a public school, so a question is "should the government, or parts of the government, be inaccessible to blind people". Right now it's hard to know what the current legal requirements even are, so we tend to only argue over what they should be. And that's more of a discussion of value than fact.