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Discussion on: I am a web developer, hard of hearing, and an a11y advocate, Ask Me Anything!

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Wayne

Because you have difficulty hearing I would assume that video and audio would be the most difficult things. What is something that is challenging with the web that I wouldn't expect?

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Ashlee (she/her)

You probably wouldn't expect how many large companies don't manually put captions on their videos. A lot of places use auto-generated captions, but those are no good if the speakers in a video don't speak loudly or clearly enough.

Something I'd love to see if companies can't get on board with captions: transcripts. Just have someone type it up. I'm sure it's cheaper and faster than adding captions to a video if you don't have an expert doing it.