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With this one weird trick, you can make the web better for up to 20% of your visitors! Let me tell you for free! Please caption your videos, or make trans
by roberthahn 12y ago
With this one weird trick, you can make the web better for up to 20% of your visitors! Let me tell you for free!
Please caption your videos, or make transcripts available.
Did you get that?
Please caption your videos, or make transcripts available.
Yes: 20% of people over the age of 12 have some degree of hearing loss[1]. That's 6% more (two IE9 marketshares!) than the total of vision and mobility disabilities. And if you caption, it's easy for you to see if you did it right!
[1] Google "percentage of people with hearing loss" to see multiple sources converging on this number
- Semiapies 12y agoAlso helps with search, and it will often save time to let people in general skim a transcript instead of watching a video to see if really covers the subject they need to know about.
- roberthahn 12y agoPrecisely. What I'm asking for would benefit a lot more people than the 20% I'm calling out.