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The View Reacts: To Trump's Tweets During Comey Hearing (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Mar 2017
OP
The CC is NEGATED on that video (click it to see). Besides, CC is often gibberish, and it is light
tblue37
Mar 2017
#3
tblue37
(65,341 posts)1. Could you summarize a few points for us deafies? Thanks. nt
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)2. Can't you turn on subtitles?
The controls are at the botton-right.
tblue37
(65,341 posts)3. The CC is NEGATED on that video (click it to see). Besides, CC is often gibberish, and it is light
gray on a black background, which means it is essentially invisible against the video.
I posted a thread about this a couple of weeks ago:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1148182
AAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! Dammit, DU!
Once again the DU "hearies" have given me the runaround for being deaf!
You know how it goes. Someone posts a video without even the slightest explanation of its content. Or they post some cryptic comment that can be understood only by someone who has seen a certain video or heard something on TV.
When you ask for a brief summary of the point or an explanation of the cryptic comment, they say, "Watch the video." So you explain that being deaf means you are not likely to understand the video. So they say, as if we don't have a clue, "There's a button to click for CC."
Then you explain that CC is most often absolute gibberish, and that even when it is not, it is virtually unreadable because of being provided in very pale grayish white print on a black background, which blends into the video image.
And it goes on and on and on, with one hearie after another advising you to just watch the damned video, as though being deaf is merely a matter of being lazy or recalcitrant.
I finally got so frustrated by their ironic unwillingness to hear what I was explaining that I hunted up an article that explained "TBD," the cryptic initialism in the OP that started the whole thing. (It means "to be determined," in case you are interested.)
Here is the OP:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8749716
And here is my last exasperated response to the runaround I was given, not just by the OP, but by several other people posting on the thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8750834
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)4. I am a "hearie" and fully appreciate your post.
I often cannot play the video and don't know if I want to try another browser if I am unsure what the video is even about. It would be nice if they'd at least give a synopsis. Then, at the very least I can decide if I want to see the whole thing and will promise you that I will post details for you.
tblue37
(65,341 posts)5. THANK YOU!!! nt
kag
(4,079 posts)6. I, too, am a sympathetic hearie...
Thank you for posting this. I don't think I ever quite understood the frustration that must come from having to rely on CC, only to find that the CC is completely UNreliable.
tblue37
(65,341 posts)7. YouTube's CC is Beta, so it has a lot of glitches and often makes no sense at all.
It is like those "funny lipreading videos."
tblue37
(65,341 posts)8. "FBI Director James come...wai taping Trump's kar...Trump's wife. . . ." nt