#community captions
They used it as a way to add spam, memes, & other things no one said in the video.
Because of these people YouTube has decided to remove the option all together.
Over 130 fans of ‘Spring Awakening’ worked together using Community Captions to caption over 400 Deaf West’s Spring Awakening videos.
List of captioned DWSA videos: [X]
People all around the world worked together to make the videos accessible for EVERYONE. Not just for Deaf & Hard of Hearing people, but also people with sensory processing disorders, and people who’s language is not the same as the video.
Most the time a video is ONLY captioned because of Community Captions.
With the removal of this feature, billions of videos will not be accessible for ALL people.
Sign the petition to tell @YouTube not to remove Community Captions.
Link to petition: [X]
![DWSA [CC] Videos](https://64.media.tumblr.com/avatar_ff64f1c5e1f4_30.png){kind=avatar}
YouTube videos can be captioned or translated into 193 languages.
Sign for:
- Deaf or Hard of Hearing people
- People with sensory processing disorders (& autism, ADHD, ADD, dyslexia, etc)
- People who want to watch a video not in their native language.
Some people used YouTube’s Community Contributions as a way to add spam, memes, & other things no one said in the video.
So they decide to remove the option completely (rather than find a way to sort spam from actual captions).
Most the time a video is ONLY captioned because of Com. Captions. With the removal of this feature, billions of videos will not be accessible for ALL people.
Sign the petition to tell YouTube not to remove Community Captions.
Link to petition: [X]
They used it as a way to add spam, memes, & other things no one said in the video.
Because of these people YouTube has decided to remove the option all together.
Over 130 fans of ‘Spring Awakening’ worked together using Community Captions to caption over 400 Deaf West’s Spring Awakening videos.
List of captioned DWSA videos: [X]
People all around the world worked together to make the videos accessible for EVERYONE. Not just for Deaf & Hard of Hearing people, but also people with sensory processing disorders, and people who’s language is not the same as the video.
Most the time a video is ONLY captioned because of Community Captions.
With the removal of this feature, billions of videos will not be accessible for ALL people.
Sign the petition to tell @YouTube not to remove Community Captions.
Link to petition: [X]
- If you are one of the 130+ Deaf Awakening fans who helped make DWSA videos accessible for ALL, please sign and share this.
- If you are someone who captions or translates videos of your favorite YouTuber, please sign and share this.
- If you are someone (or you know someone) who uses captions or subtitles for ANY reason, please sign and share this.
YouTube’s Community Contributions is the most common way videos are made accessible for ANYONE on YouTube.
Audiences use YouTube’s Community Contributions to caption/subtitle or translate ANY video into 193 languages.
Sign this for:
- Deaf/Hard of Hearing people
- People with Sensory Processing Disorders, like Autism
- People who have learning disabilities, like ADHD, ADD, and Dyslexia
- People learning a language
- And people who enjoy videos that are not in their native language
Sign the petition to keep YouTube accessible for ALL people WORLDWIDE.
They used it as a way to add spam, memes, & other things no one said in the video.
Because of these people YouTube has decided to remove the option all together.
Over 130 fans of ‘Spring Awakening’ worked together using Community Captions to caption over 400 Deaf West’s Spring Awakening videos.
List of captioned DWSA videos: [X]
People all around the world worked together to make the videos accessible for EVERYONE. Not just for Deaf & Hard of Hearing people, but also people with sensory processing disorders, and people who’s language is not the same as the video.
Most the time a video is ONLY captioned because of Community Captions.
With the removal of this feature, billions of videos will not be accessible for ALL people.
Sign the petition to tell @YouTube not to remove Community Captions.
Link to petition: [X]
Phil presents his episode of ‘In This Place: Gaychester’ about the Albert Kennedy Trust. [ENG subtitles]
**Community captions are on, so feel free to add translate subtitles to any language.**
