I started writing the post in mid-May. Sadly, my father died shortly afterwards, so I haven't been able to finish it before now.
Anyway, here it is: a short anecdotal excursion into why people use captions or subtitles on the web.
(It isn't what you think.)
#serviceDesign #accessibility #a11y #autism #neurodiversity
https://design.scotentblog.co.uk/why-people-use-subtitles-and-captioning/
@se_davidobrien
Great article and demonstration of the 'curb-cut effect'. I know I like to use CC when it's noisy or I'm tired.
If you don't mind a bit of a tangential question, I'd like to know how email, keyboards, and text messaging are considered inclusion innovations, as mentioned in the article? I mean, I know how they help that way, but was that really why they were invented?
I don't know about keyboards – they seem pretty indispensable generally – but text or SMS messaging was invented, at least in part, to enable folks with hearing loss to use mobile phones.
Now, of course, and detrimentally, the format frames our political discourse.
Email similarly used SMTP (invented in 1969!) to send text over the internet, or ARPA as it was then. Because it's just text, it's (relatively) trivial to render speech from it.
David O'Brien
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