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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
by 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/