YouTube now using captioning
YouTube, one of the most popular sites for personal videos to be posted will be using an automated captioning service. This will finally allow those that have hearing problems to access the videos on this site. It also allows the disabled to share their videos knowing that other disabled people will be able to read the captioning to understand what the people in the videos are saying. The captioning will originally be only in English but will eventually work with some 51 languages. The real power of YouTube will be unleashed when you can ask that any video be translated to your native language regardless of what language the video was performed in. We will have a truly international universal translator that will allow anyone from most of the industrialized world to communicate to another without the need of a translator. But in the mean time much work needs to be done before the automatic translation is working properly.
This is good news for the disability groups that were complaining that many of the candidates in the United States were not making their speeches and other materials available with captioning. This made it very difficult for disabled voters to get a true picture of where the candidates sat on particular issues and forced many to pick those candidates that did provide their materials in captioning. That is truly sad that candidates received votes merely because they made materials available in captioning because the other candidates didn’t think that the disabled were an important enough group to follow. The candidates need to remember that as the baby boomer generation ages they will become blind and hard of hearing over time. They will need to have things likme captioning from all the candidates or they will have to think that those that do not support those technologies are not disabled friendly. With all the problems that the disabled have just staying alive and well on a daily basis, fighting with their elected officials to gain access to the same things that the able bodied get for granted is not something we will put up with.
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