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also what actually are the accessibility requirements?
as it is it’s really hard to judge the validity of the complaints in this article
This already happens in the US with ADA laws, and it will happen with California's new privacy and wage transparency laws. Unfortunately every time you create a new law with a private right of action, lawyers will monetize it at industrial scale. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/magazine/americans-with-d...
There was a disabled guy in the Bay Area going around suing all sorts of restaurants and other places if they didn't have ramps. Small hole in the wall restaurants couldn't afford renovations and had to just close, resulting in more Mc-chain restaurants moving in that can afford to play ball. Disabled people need access, but I (perhaps controversially) don't think they need access to 100% of the things. I'm reminded…
Weren't they going to pave the sky to sea trail at one point? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline-to-the-Sea_Trail
Not much of a description of the new accessibility requirements, so I don't think people can have much insight about what exactly broke down here. I'm guessing if a website has more than 500 viewers/visitors a month, it's required that the videos must be captioned? Couldn't this guy just hire a professional captioning service or offer transcripts to users that may need it? This all seems a bit dramatic from the guy,…
That sounds expensive for something that he is giving away free.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220603100412/http://javabook.c...
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Whisper is free and classroom instruction should be a breeze and require little correction, as there likely isn't much background noise or music.
And it only works with English. As discussed elsewhere in the thread, the majority of the videos are in Hebrew. Even for much less exotic languages such as French automatic speech recognition systems don't work or are extremely bad.
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> You're arguing for a dichotomy that doesn't exist. It literally exists: https://reason.com/2017/03/07/berkeley-deletes-200000-free-o...
Not a dichotomy, the third option of making your website accessible is right there within their reach. Them putting their hands up and saying "guess we'll do nothing" is not evidence that they couldn't have. I could have done that with two interns over a summer in 2017, I've done much larger labeling projects with fewer resources. Had they even thought about accessibility before being called on it, they could even ha…
This sounds like the sort of scam that a certain company in my corner of the world tried to pull - they bought rights to map data and threatened small businesses that had maps on their websites(even small, "hand-drawn" ones) that they'll report them to the authorities for copyright infringement(prosecuted ex officio), unless the businesses in question pay a "licensing fee". Eventually they made the mistake of trying…
"Thanks to [a lack of subtitles on all of my videos], I [choose] to delete my websites" rather than add subtitles.
It’s their content, offered for free. It would be great if they would add subtitles, but it’s asking them to invest extra labor or money to do so - for free again. I mourn the loss of the content, but I understand their decision.
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One Saturday morning 3 months ago I got on my bike like I had the week before, and the week before that. Less than 30 minutes later I was splayed out on the ground with my lower right leg broken clean in half and my tibia sticking out of my shin while an onlookers called me an ambulance. For 2 months afterwards I was confined to wheelchairs and walkers, and I only just recently was able to start walking independently…
Also worth noting, building accessibility into your product doesn't just help those with disabilities. Oftentimes it provides a good experience for all users.
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Yes, that system would be called government-driven enforcement. It shouldn't be my job, as a private citizen, to launch a lawsuit to ensure that vendors comply with relevant laws.
Hello Texas abortion law
You could outlaw guns with this, eliminate interracial marriage, prevent women from voting, censor arbitrary speech.
[1] I don’t want to say crime because it’s a civil suit. Texas could in theory pass a law like this about anything.
This is a long way of saying that the Texas abortion law is a whole different league from ADA where you actually have to be harmed and prove it to sue.
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Near the end: unless this requirement is met, there will be a need to add subtitles to all video clips in all of the courses This doesn't seem like an onerous requirement to me. There is a variety of both commercial and free tools to automate that process, and while it would involve some effort in proofreading and uploading the subtitle data, that represents at most a few days of labor.
Not if the videos are in Hebrew. English and other languages have excellent support and tools that less common languages don't.