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The guy lives in Israel, and is making classes in a language he speaks, he's not going to get hoodwinked into paying $3000 an hour captions. Just because there

The guy lives in Israel, and is making classes in a language he speaks, he's not going to get hoodwinked into paying $3000 an hour captions. Just because there are offers for $3000 an hour subtitles to businesses with more money than sense doesn't mean he couldn't post this job on one of hundreds of translation markets that would this at thousandths of the cost you quoted. - And twitch streamer does not have to submit to this. Literally the preface to the exemptions: > Websites providing a public service, such as utilities, education, health, must have accessible websites. It's not a long article, but apparently you couldn't be bothered to even skim the one section explaining the exemptions. But now before you go weaving an new intricate example of how oppressive it is to ask public services to be accessible, let me save you some trouble. I understand this is Hacker News where I am sure you'd gladly spend days coming up with every contrarian corner case to basic affordances for the disabled in existence than accept, maybe just maybe, you were wrong based off your initial assessment of a situation. Fortunately I don't have that problem, so I'll very enthusiastically leave it at that, feel free to believe what you will about providing basic subtitles for technical content.

Dylan16807 4y ago
> The guy lives in Israel, and is making classes in a language he speaks, he's not going to get hoodwinked into paying $3000 an hour captions. What do you think is a reasonable price? Why is every company I find wrong? It's not like you can hire an assistant that can work on it for many hours for a quarter of $30k/year. And yeah I'm assuming he won't do it himself, which I think is reasonable. Service prices are fair here. > thousandths of the cost you quoted. Thousandths? So they can transcribe an hour of audio by hand for under a dollar? Be reasonable. Though I think you did the math wrong, I was citing $300, and that's for a good few hours of labor to get everything written down, cleaned up, and synced. If there's a way to do it with just a computer then ignore everything I said, but I thought the point here was that tech doesn't work well enough on hebrew. > It's not a long article, but apparently you couldn't be bothered to even skim the one section explaining the exemptions. I didn't click the link with exemptions because I was just giving an example of video content. Sorry? It doesn't invalidate my entire point. And what if those twitch streams were educational? > I understand this is Hacker News where I am sure you'd gladly spend days coming up with every contrarian corner case to basic affordances for the disabled in existence than accept, maybe just maybe, you were wrong based off your initial assessment of a situation. I admit that just fine. But if you want to prove the "maybe" you need to give me a real citation on cost that shows it's affordable.
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> The guy lives in Israel, and is making classes in a language he speaks, he's not going to get hoodwinked into paying $3000 an hour captions. What do you think is a reasonable price? Why is every company I find wrong? It's not like you can hire an assistant that can work on it for many hours for a quarter of $30k/year. And yeah I'm assuming he won't do it himself, which I think is reasonable. Service prices are fair here. > thousandths of the cost you quoted. Thousandths? So they can transcribe an hour of audio by hand for under a dollar? Be reasonable. Though I think you did the math wrong, I was citing $300, and that's for a good few hours of labor to get everything written down, cleaned up, and synced. If there's a way to do it with just a computer then ignore everything I said, but I thought the point here was that tech doesn't work well enough on hebrew. > It's not a long article, but apparently you couldn't be bothered to even skim the one section explaining the exemptions. I didn't click the link with exemptions because I was just giving an example of video content. Sorry? It doesn't invalidate my entire point. And what if those twitch streams were educational? > I understand this is Hacker News where I am sure you'd gladly spend days coming up with every contrarian corner case to basic affordances for the disabled in existence than accept, maybe just maybe, you were wrong based off your initial assessment of a situation. I admit that just fine. But if you want to prove the "maybe" you need to give me a real citation on cost that shows it's affordable.

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