Sounding out the web
summary
Practical checklist: always provide subtitles/captions, check and edit auto-captions (YouTube’s transcribe and auto-sync workflow lets you correct timing), keep captions tightly synchronised with audio, offer downloadable transcripts and searchable, highlighted text (BBC’s BOB indexes 2 million broadcasts), avoid autoplay audio or give a clear off control, and structure content with headings to reduce visual overload. Studies show 7.5 million UK subtitle users but only 1.5 million are deaf or hard of hearing, and even a small error rate collapses comprehension, so captions must be accurate.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 3:04About me
- 4:43Disability? Impairment?
- 6:42What is 'accessibility, anyway?
- 7:20What's it like to be deaf?
- 9:53Language matters!
- 11:58Deaf and deaf: potato, potahto?
- 12:45UK stats
- 13:14Choices
- 14:24Effects 1: Spaces
- 16:07Effects 2: Information
- 18:06Accessibility rarely happens by chance
- 20:05What's great about the 'net?
- 23:03Recent examples
- 28:26WHICH ONE IS DEAF?
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