Data Horde

YouTube is hiding Attributions to Fan-Captioners and Translators who wanted to be credited

YouTube no longer lists captioners and translators in the video description, hiding the names of these diligent authors who had asked to be credited...

By themadprogramer October 15, 2020NewsNo Comments

Community Translations After September 28

History

[Obsoleted] YouTube removed community translations, but there is a workaround!

Even with YouTube having disabled community contributions, there is a workaround you can use to continue to add new translations on videos!

By themadprogramer October 12, 2020History2 Comments

History News

The Untold Story of why YouTube is removing Community Contributions; YouTube CC History pt. 4

In the later half of the 2010’s YouTube began putting a greater emphasis on international accessibility over accessibility for the deaf. This change in policy, alienated the Deaf Community who began to criticize the increasing inadequacy of closed captions on the website. The ensuing events would bring about the rise and fall of the feature known as community contributions.

By themadprogramer September 18, 2020History, News1 Comment

History

Scaling the Waterfall, Captions for All; YouTube CC History pt.3

In the early half of the 2010's YouTube would work to increase the percentage of captioned videos on the platform, through various means. This was especially motivated by a rivalry with an up-and-coming subtitling platform, Amara.

By themadprogramer September 12, 2020HistoryNo Comments

History

Pioneering Online Accessibility; YouTube CC History pt.2

In August 2008, Google finally initiated the migration of the closed captions infrastructure from Google Video to YouTube. The following months are nothing short of crazy! Editor improvements, caption translation, automatic captioning and more... A lot of heart and soul was poured into making video more accessible than ever!

By themadprogramer September 4, 2020HistoryNo Comments

History

Unusual Beginnings on Google Video; YouTube CC History pt.1

YouTube's Community Contributions are going away soon, but did you ever wonder how the idea for this feature came about? And would you believe me if I told you that it doesn't even start on YouTube...

By themadprogramer August 28, 2020HistoryNo Comments

News

The Impact of YouTube Removing Community-Contributed Closed Captions

For about a decade now, YouTube has supported one form or another of contributing closed captions on videos which don't already have them. Which is why it is an absolutely HORRIBLE idea that they've decided to remove them by September 28, without offering any real alternatives.

By themadprogramer August 14, 2020NewsNo Comments