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Is there a satisfatory amount of audio described content on YouTube? (self.Blind)
submitted by felipeseixas
How visual impaired individuals watch regular Youtube channels? Do they use any tool or rely on friends/family to describe? Would audio descriptions of these channels improve their experience? I am currently working on a university research project to facilitate accessibility to online video contents, so please do not hesitate in contacting me!
mrg3rry 2 points 6y ago
I follow a lot of organizations for the blind like Perkins and Hadley, they do there own audio description.
I know there was a big push from the deaf community on youtube for closed captioning and now it is a thing and can be automated or crowed sourced.
There are a few YouTube creators that are advocating for audio description option but nothing as of yet.
We as YouTube consumers need to be vocal to the chanels we watch to ask for audio description.
I know there was a big push from the deaf community on youtube for closed captioning and now it is a thing and can be automated or crowed sourced.
There are a few YouTube creators that are advocating for audio description option but nothing as of yet.
We as YouTube consumers need to be vocal to the chanels we watch to ask for audio description.
spider_lord 1 points 6y ago
As far as I know there's no manditory or official descriptive audio on YouTube.
johnnytai 1 points 6y ago
In short, hells no... I've never actually seen anything descriptive on youtube lol.
fastfinge 1 points 6y ago
Youtube really has no built-in support for audio description. So maybe only a hundred or so things on youtube have description at all. However, a lot of the channels I'm drawn to don't happen to need it; I don't think $1 and most of Ashen's other videos would be much more amusing if described. Same goes for A Dose of Buckley, and all of the various tech review channels I watch.
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