Videos on WordPressl.org don’t have Captions
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I am profoundly Deaf and dismayed to find that the videos here on wordpress.org do NOT have closed captions. The documentation is not accessible for me at all. Accessibility should be for all of us, not just visually impaired people.
The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]
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I agree with your statement about accessibility.
Except things are not exactly as they may seem to you.
https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/wordpress-block-editor/
The videos are just mouse movements demonstrating specific features.
They don’t have any audio at all. Hence no captions.
All the videos on WordPress.TV and Learn WordPress have audio and most do have captions, some in multiple languages. The captions are not burnt into the videos to enable multi-lingual captioning. So you’ll need to click/tap the button shown below (only where there’s audio) to turn on the captions.
Also, remember: everything in WordPress is 100% done by volunteers: the WordPress users who use the software. So even where there’s audio, captions may only become available (and in specific languages) as and when fellow WordPress users (who are able to) step up to transcribe and/or translate the audio.
Good luck!
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