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Accessibility is great when you want to quickly get the gist of something without devoting all your focus and energy to it. For TV, subtitles let you watch in a
by conradludgate 5y ago
Accessibility is great when you want to quickly get the gist of something without devoting all your focus and energy to it. For TV, subtitles let you watch in a noisy environment, or you didn't quite catch that word but you already read ahead in the text (admittedly, that can ruin some jokes)
My over-ear headphones already have a audio passthrough mode that's designed for speech, so it let's through the standard speech frequencies but background noise is usually kept out.
Crossings in the UK are designed to stand out for the hard-of-sight, it ends up making it really easy to quickly glance and notice a crossing for me.
I wish my phone could automatically transcribe phone calls. I have trouble understanding people, especially when the call breaks up, and I hate having to speak like a news presenter for the other side.
Accessibility ends up helping everyone