Alicorn comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong

5 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 01 January 2010 05:02PM

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Comment author: Blueberry 03 January 2010 04:37:48PM 3 points [-]

For me personally, I would prefer transcripts and written summaries of any audio or video content. I find it very difficult to listen to and learn from hearing audio when sitting at a computer, and having text or a transcript to read from instead helps a lot. It allows me to read at my own pace and go back and forth when I need to.

I'd also like any audio and video content to be easily and separately downloadable, so I could listen to it at my own convenience. And I'd want any slides or demonstrations to be easily printable, so I could see it on paper and write notes on it. (As you can probably tell, I'm more of a verbal and visual learner.)

By the way, your comment seemed totally normal to me, and I didn't notice any unusual tone, but I'm curious what you were referring to.

Comment author: Alicorn 03 January 2010 04:42:12PM 2 points [-]

Seconded the need for transcriptions. This is also a matter of disability access, which is frequently neglected in website design - better to have it there from the beginning than wait for someone to sue.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 03 January 2010 04:58:41PM 0 points [-]

We're already keeping disability access in mind. SecondLife and OpenSim are generally very good with accessibility for everyone but visually impaired folks, for whom they're unfortunately very hard to make accessible.