YouTube Is Ending Its Community Captions Feature and Deaf Creators Aren’t Happy about it – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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But deaf and hard-of-hearing creators say removing the community captions feature will stifle accessibility, and they want to see the company try to fix the issues with volunteer-created captions, rather than doing away with them entirely. Deaf YouTuber Rikki Poynter said on her channel in May that community captions were an “accessibility tool that not […]

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YouTube Is Ending Its Community Captions Feature and Deaf Creators Aren’t Happy about it – Accessibility News International

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The feature, which YouTube says was underutilized, will be discontinued in September By Kim Lyons Jul 31, 2020The Verge YouTube plans to discontinue its community captions feature, which allowed viewers to add subtitles to videos, because it was “rarely used and had problems with spam/abuse,” the company announced. It says it’s removing the captions and […]

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In A Second COVID-19 Wave If There Aren’t Enough Ventilators for All Patients Needing Them, A new Draft Ontario Medical Triage Protocol Would Continue to Discriminate Against COVID-19Patients with Disabilities – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Despite having four months to fix this serious problem, in the COVID-19 crisis the Ford Government has still not rooted out the current danger to people with disabilities, induced by a protocol that Ontario Health sent to all hospitals last spring. That protocol lets hospitals violate basic human rights of COVID-19 patients with disabilities if […]

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