How to Allow Other People to Add Captions to Your YouTube Videos

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Updated September 28, 2020: Sadly, YouTube removed the feature for people to contribute community captions.

In July 2018, I wrote about how my one tweet led to Troy Hunt’s YouTube HTTPS series getting translated into 16+ languages.

I kicked off getting the series captioned by asking Hunt to enable YouTube community contributions. Once he turned contributions on, I added English captions to the first two videos.

In less than a week, Hunt’s community stepped up and added translations for 16 languages for the four videos. Continue reading How to Allow Other People to Add Captions to Your YouTube Videos

Takeaways from 2019 Digital Accessibility Trends with Tim Springer, Founder of Level Access

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Takeaways from Digital Accessibility Trends

Thanks to Accessibility New York City (A11y NYC) livestreaming their April 2018 meetup last night, I was able to attend Tim Springer’s presentation 2019 Digital Accessibility Trends.

I didn’t know much about Springer’s background, he’s been doing accessibility work for 20 years. He started his accessibility journey when he was an undergraduate student at Stanford University.

Now CEO at Level Access, Springer developed Level Access’s core technology and led development of InFocus, the first commercial web accessibility testing software.

In recognition of his work, Springer was recently awarded a Champion of Change award by the White House. Continue reading Takeaways from 2019 Digital Accessibility Trends with Tim Springer, Founder of Level Access

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