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Re: Evaluation: Accessible Interface to YouTube

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From: John E. Brandt
Date: Apr 29, 2009 3:15PM

Curious project Tom. But I am wondering why you limited the accessibility
question to only people with visual disabilities.

There are a number of people with hearing disabilities using YT. Many use
the YT videos to communicate with others via sign language - sort of "sign
language blogs." Yet, the vast majority of YT content is not captioned,
transcribed - nor has a signed component.

YT does have the capacity (now) to add captioning and in fact I created a YT
video with captioning as a test. But when I viewed this video using your
"accessible YouTube" interface, there was no way to turn the captioning on
making is thus, less accessible. Is there a way to adapt your system to
include the captioning if it so exists on a particular YT video?

Good luck with you dissertation.

~j

John E. Brandt
Web Design, Development, Consultation
Augusta, Maine USA
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