August 10, 2020 / by BBG Security / Communications
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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YouTube Is Ending Its Community Captions Feature and Deaf Creators Aren’t Happy about it – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
August 10, 2020 / by BBG Security / Deaf, International
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
August 10, 2020 / by BBG Security / Communications
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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