I can just imagine beeing deaf. Not being able to hear sound, relying on typed text while watching videos because I couldn’t hear talking. On the 28th of September, an article from Ars Technica entitled YouTube celebrates Deaf Awareness Week by killing crowd-sourced captions goes in to detail on what the search giant is doing instead. While paying for a subscription elsewhere is a good sign, if you have something that you’ve built and allow the community to use and it works well, I’d rather see that. This definitely does not make any sesne, and I wonder what they were even thinking.
Does this mean the blind and all the work they have done to make their services accessible to us screen readers is next? Its definitely a thought, and this just can’t be good. Your thoughts are welcome.
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