@sam Oh, I remember there was a thread with several replies here in the community. Maybe search for some of the relevant hashtags to find accounts to contact about it?
@NoahCarver@levampyre@disability@ACBNational I'm mostly just curious about peoples experience; I got someone the other day saying "if you're pushing back against AI you're being ablest, people benefit from more captions", but I suspect that it's the opposite: instead of nothing, it's scattered with ridiculous captions that don't make sense, or are technically correct but leave out context. But we're both sighted, so it didn't seem like an argument worth having and I figured I'd ask instead.
@sam@levampyre@disability@ACBNational@cameron Well, my first question would be are you talking about captions for death or heart of hearing people or are you talking about visual descriptions for blind people? Sorry if this seems like a dense question, but unfortunately your verbiage is slightly ambiguous.
@NoahCarver@levampyre@disability@ACBNational@cameron oh yah, sorry, I said "captions" I meant "alt-text on images", specifically for people who are blind. Although I was paraphrasing and neither was the original prompt, actually, it just became the specific example I started thinking about and that I had someone I could specifically ask about it (but also decided to ask online to get a wider set of perspectives).
HA! Sorry... this just came across my timeline. There are some people who think bad captions are better than no captions - I am not one of those people. If the captions give gibberish or give completely wrong information how is it helpful? I was in a zoom chat once for an accessibility course and one speaker's captions were completely useless. I learned nothing from that zoom call.