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As my current "have on in the background to follow with low level attention" series I have #SexAndTheCity. Currently at the episode where Carrie meets Aleksandr Petrovsky and has dinner with him.
The waitress comes over and talks with Aleksandr, and the #captions on #Netflix read: [both speaking French]. I'm not fluent in #French, but I'm quite sure that their conversation sounded a lot more like #Russian than French. 😅 Which also makes a lot more sense, (Latvian-born American) Mikhail Baryshnikov's character is supposed to be Russian, and they are dining in a Russian restaurant. 😂

These kinds of mistakes always make me wonder how the mistake happened.

Edit: hmm, one of the later episodes has one of his assistants speaking French; I wonder if that's where the mistake came from.

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@sidereal I can't comment on the time taken to edit video.

As someone who occasionally transcribes: I assure readers that the time required to transcribe can be enormous — COLOSSAL — compared to the duration of the audio or AV content that must be listened to, repeatedly.

I can not speak for @howisyourdog but I typically don't bother with content that lacks captions (subtitles). Substandard accessibility is an immediate turn-off.

Cc @grvsmth @bedast

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@hellomiakoda This!

As a fellow #actuallyautistic human with #auditoryprocessing difficulties, I use closed #captions full time. The auto-generating ones on #youtube and other #tech like #msteams #googlemeet and #zoom range from OK to atrocious, and at the drop of a hat. If someone has an accent or is speaking quickly? Forget it. The level of purely unnecessary difficulty just increased exponentially.

Among other things, the Graze extension displays ALT text as a caption under images. I only boost posts with Alt text, and sometimes like to copy/paste Alt text when sharing a post, so this extension makes things easier for me even though I don't require Alt text to access content myself.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

addons.mozilla.orgGraze for Mastodon – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)Download Graze for Mastodon for Firefox. Graze is 1-click follow, favorite, boost, bookmark, reply for Mastodon, no matter what instance you call home.

The culture in the #fediverse of always adding meaningful alt text to pictures is really fantastic. Not just because of the ethical commitment to making this an accessible place for everyone but it actually unlocks a lot of richness and creativity and forces us all to be more intentional about what we are posting and why. I find myself really thinking about how to describe images and what they mean. Its a great writing exercises and adds layers of complexity and depth to what we share. Making things better for people with accessibly issues makes things better for everyone in the process.

I finally got a gig up on #fiverr with the hope that I can get some #freelancing going with #accessibility Currently I have my #subtitles and #captions with a plan to offer add #audioediting and maybe even alt text options.

I’m only working part time for the holidays and really need some income.

Has anyone built a good client base and have some tips for someone just getting started?

fiverr.com/s/YX78wR?utm_source (open to feedback too of course)