• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m just deaf and happy y’all’re seeing the light. My father was annoyed with mom’s captions. My wife used them before we met

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      1 year ago

      I’m also hearing impaired and am just really glad that captions are becoming so popular.

      It used to be that YouTube was rarely accessible to me. There would be a tiny amount of content that had subtitles (sometimes baked in, like epic rap battles of history does), but the vast majority of videos just weren’t fun for me because I’d miss too much. These days a good chunk of popular YouTubers have curated captions and another good chunk are clear enough speakers that the automatic captions work.

      I’ve actually been watching more YouTube in recent times than ever before specifically because I’ve been discovering all this content I previously wrote off. There was recently a post somewhere that introduced me to Technology Connections. And from there, I figured I’d check out some other names I had heard about that might be interesting, Linus’s tech tips and ElectroBOOM, and both had captions, too.