Nine of Barack Obama's web videos now have closed-captioning. Before then, YouTube did not provide any real benefits for the deaf and hard of hearing. Project readOn created a special player to display captions alongside a Web video.
The project will help to caption any video that users submit. After Project readOn made captions for an Obama video requested by one of its members, according to Mr. Gutierrez, the campaign asked to have the captioning widget on all of its videos.
Though Project readOn has captioned videos of interviews with President Bush and former President Bill Clinton, Mr. Gutierrez said, Mr. Obama is the “only” 2008 candidate whose videos its users have requested so far. “I’ll be interested to see how that changes,” he added.
“We noticed that everything is moving to the Internet,” Mr. Gutierrez said. Observing that advocates for the hard-of-hearing usually have to fight and lobby to get access, he sees the user-requested captions as “the perfect way to reverse that process.”
Visit Project readOn's website to see how the site works.
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