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I don't know the specifics of this law, but in other cases, automatically-generated captions have been found to not be good enough. https://www.nationaldeafcen

• armchairhacker 4y ago
  YouTube has automatically-generated captions. What makes his content under the law different than YouTube?
  • phendrenad2 4y ago
    YouTube can afford good lawyers, so they get to play by different rules. What, you thought the playing field was level?
  • jonas21 4y ago
    YouTube doesn't create the content. They host content created by others. It's the creator's responsibility to comply with accessibility laws. I don't know how it works in Israel, but in the US, the ADA requires educational institutions to provide equal access to deaf users. They can meet that requirement in several ways, including sign-language interpreters or closed captions. But automatically generated captions do not meet the requirement. This applies whether the institution hosts the content themselves, on YouTube, or on any other service. For example, a few years ago, UC Berkeley had to take down over 20,000 of its videos from YouTube and iTunes because they only had automatic captions: https://news.berkeley.edu/2017/03/01/course-capture/ https://news.berkeley.edu/2017/03/01/course-capture/