YouTube celebrates Deaf Awareness Week by killing crowd-sourced captions
Source: Daily Mail
YouTube has been criticized by members of the deaf community for deactivating a feature that allowed channels to crowdsource captions and subtitles.
The 'Community Contributions' feature was deactivated September 28, one day after the end of International Week of the Deaf.
The Google-owned platform said it was pulling the plug because the feature is 'rarely used and people continue to report spam and abuse.'
In addition to offering assistance to deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers, supporters say the option benefited people with audio-processing disorders and those trying to consume media in a foreign language.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8782563/YouTube-kills-crowdsource-caption-feature-safety-net-deaf-viewers.html
underpants
(182,769 posts)I work with sort of related disabled people.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)-- Actual ad on a matchbook
canuckledragger
(1,636 posts)"We (youtube) aren't making any money off this so fuck those people."
iluvtennis
(19,849 posts)this feature active. Show some goodwill to the world.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Which I don't think does captions.
jayfish
(10,039 posts)But you have linked to and excerpted from a Daily Mail story.
YouTube celebrates Deaf Awareness Week by killing crowd-sourced captions