Going to be ahead of the curve here and tell you that you're going to get some pushback, or at least little to no interest, since it doesn't seem you're going to compensate people.

Many of us see these types of things as money making opportunities, and it seems you might be working for Google (YouTube?) so... yeah, not a good look bro.

@OP
Sending a PM now, I'm happy to do an interview.

My inbox is open. I'm over 18.

I can't really do any long interviews, but here's a little info from me, a very active youtube user and fairly large channel (by ratio of my target audience (blind people))

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I tend to watch blind people's channels, but I also do watch videos of people reading stuff from r/entitledparents, and other similar stuff.. I would honestly say the navigation on youtube is fine, it doesn't need any improvements, however it does work best on mobile devices rather than on pc for some cases (on android, though, I'm forced to scroll down quite far to look in the comments section, which can be tiresome but isn't that much of a problem)

As to the video creation side, it's quite easy as well. I go to $1 and then I use OBS to start a stream )or sometimes just start a recording) and it does all the work. Using OBS, I can capture the audio of the device I'm on (my laptop or my computer) similar to how you might capture a screen, but with sound.



The OBS program isn't 100% accessible, but the small part that isn't obvious is not difficult to figure out thanks to tutorials, people have posted some good ones in the articles room on the $1 forum.

Then if they are recordings rather than streams I can upload them and there is no problem with choosing all the required elements I might want, and - if necessary, editing or deleting my videos (a few from 2018 have suffered this fate for reasons such as, cringe, cringe, and cringe)

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Hope this helps!

I have a question. How will this improove Youtube? You say in your post that you are doing research for a university project. People at Youtube will probably never see your findings. This is why many of us don't do these interviews.

This topic has been asked and answered in prior posts. Which is common to these sorts of inquiries. Thus, the negative feedback, it's unfortunate, but it gets tiresome. Imagine sitting behind your keyboard listening to your screen reader or using a braille display, getting though all the post to realize it's the same survey request or inquiry by an engineering or social sciences student that got answered last month.

Well youtube is very accessible I did a similar survey last year or so. But if you’re still looking and not the same people I’d help but yeah. This is also a long time ago.