Every single YouTube video with English language audio can now support captioning created by speech recognition software thus improving the sites accessibility for videos. The move has been highly favoured by those representing deaf and hearing impaired users including the Royal Institute for Deaf People who agreed that the change would be most useful. More details on this news story which is of particular interest to Disability Suppost staff as well as others at institutions is available from the Outlaw website at:
http://www.out-law.com/page-10815.
(08/03/10)