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Automatic Captions are not ADA compliant. https://www.speechpad.com/blog/ada-compliant-captions-vs-auto-captions https://www.speechpad.com/blog/ada-compliant-c

• professoretc 12d ago
  That article (slash advertisement for Speechpad) spends a lot of words not explaining why human captioning is preferable in general to automated captioning. If I, a human, make a mistake in captioning my videos, am I any better off than if I'd used whisper and it messed up?
  • kube-system 12d ago
    The page lists some of the requirements, e.g. accuracy, completeness, equivalence in access, etc. The point of their pitch is that you can't simply tell your SWEs to slap automated captions on something, check a box, and call it a day. You'd need to actually confirm you're meeting the requirements, which is something that a human who is trained in this compliance activity would do. (and something that unaware SWEs often miss) A common compliance mistake (for any type of compliance, not just ADA) is: * someone tells an SWE to implement [compliance measure] * they implement poor quality [compliance measure] that doesn't actually meet the compliance requirement, close jira ticket * they don't realize they didn't meet the compliance requirement because they don't use or need [compliance measure] and they are a SWE without any expertise with the law or the understanding of reason for the need for that requirement