the automatic subtitles on YouTube are not properly accessible.

[djgummikuh@mastodon.social]

@love thank you. It's also stupid as fuck without accessibility in mind, as it spins ambiguity around exactly the words where it might be the least favorable. Stupid ad-induced censorship 🤮

[neopolitan@outerheaven.club]

@love it bothers me to see accessibility get treated as an afterthought even though im not in need.

[neopolitan@outerheaven.club]

@charlotte @love
I would understand if it's super technical words that it chokes on. but it's everything.

[supuhstar@mastodon.social]

@love THIS!!
My partner and I have auditory processing disorders and need subtitles. The fucking [__] bullshit just means I can’t understand what they’re saying!!

Nevermind when it’s wrong and that wasn’t profanity at all!

[maeve_bkk@kolektiva.social]

@love also they put subtitles behind subscribe buttons and ads.

[incessant@mastodon.social]

@love yes!

[hayley@social.applied-langua.ge]

@love @winter the captions used to transcribe swearing verbatim, I saw this change and apparently it was in 2020 for advertiser-friendliness

[mitsunee@mk.absturztau.be]

@love@social.lol youtube has incredible tools for finding whether a video has copyrighted content, but they can't even use OCR to create a list of words for the subtitle generation to use as reference, so it constantly gets stuff wrong as well ​​

[superdicq@minidisc.tokyo]

@silverface@cyberpunk.lol @love@social.lol It's actually under Channel -> Advanced Setting. I turned it off now. I swear a lot in my videos.

[rairii@labyrinth.zone]

@hayley @love @winter i wonder what would have happened if youtube had just said no, quoting the bbc subtitle guidelines as a trusted third-party source https://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/forproducts/guides/subtitles/

[maidservantofnanaya@social.translunar.academy]

@love I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS OMG!! And like, the one-word-at-a-time popping up is pretty difficult to read. I'm not deaf but I like subtitles to be able to understand people easier.

I miss when YouTube had community captions

[condret@fedi.absturztau.be]

@love i want to have this conversation, but broader about algo speak and cursing/slur censorship in general. auto translation censoring this is just the peak of the shitberg.

[yassie_j@labyrinth.zone]

@maidservantofnanaya@translunar.academy @love@social.lol it’s really annoying they got rid of that

[dalereardon@mastodon.social]

@sortius @love Completely unacceptable & all disabled should join to stop this - the blind are also being withheld/hidden from alt text/automatic image recognition when the image is perceived as too sensitive - too much skin you know!

[croptopjin@blorbo.social]

@love this is so fucking annoying

[jizzeletbass@kolektiva.social]

@love This seems like a violation of the American's with Disability Act, but Idk.

[drhyde@fosstodon.org]

@RustyRing @love I have faulty ears and can say with absolute certainty that you are wrong. They're far from perfect, but they are useful.

[letiuchiha@toot.lgbt]

@love Moreover, the automatic subtitles have gone worse and worse, no matter the language I used to use them when there's noise around and I use them less and less due to it.

[torf@c.im]

@rogue_cells @love Let alone having tits.

[lidsel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@DrHyde @RustyRing @love And let's not forget the searchable automatic transcripts.