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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Twitter Just Rolled Out a Feature That’s Inaccessible to Disabled Users – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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The company’s blunder is symptomatic of broader issues that pervade social media design and computer science education. By Sarah KatzJune 19, 2020 On Wednesday, Twitter announced that it added a new feature that will enable iOS users to create tweets using their voice. “Hear us out: we’re testing a new way to start a conversation,” […]

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Calgarian makes lifting weights easy with new book – Calgary

Calgarian makes lifting weights easy with new book Calgary

[ad_1] Chris Demchuk loves to work out. “Everyday,” said the 24-year-old when asked how often he hits the gym. A Special Olympics athlete, Demchuk plays many sports. “Baseball and floor hockey,” lead off a long list of his favourites. “And softball and powerlifting and golf… and not skiing!” Demchuk, who has Down syndrome, says golf […]

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