Ever wonder how many blind people could be here on youtube?
Or hearing impaired ones unable hear any sounds from your videos even at the maximum sound level?
Know this : They are smarter as you are, have special keyboards, mouse and devices.
Just because they are less fortunate than the rest, why should they be blocked.
You will notice, as you continue commenting on videos, youtube stops you from commenting further.
You have to read that few letters or numbers, then once you type them exactly as they appear,
you can continue commenting on other videos. Youtube wants to make sure You are human.
In technical term, those letters are called "Captcha" which helps block spammers, spam bot etc. and makes sure
only Humans are on the site.
Is commenting only for those who have eyes ? How can someone read those Captcha if he or she is blind ?
Many sites such as the blogspot.com solves this problem allowing alternative audible Captcha. You click on it,
sounds of the letters are annouced then you type. Problem solved!
Now it's time for youtube to do the same, wouldn't you agree?
Please write your comment or post video responses asking youtube to implement this feature so blind peoples can also
make use of the comment system just like the rest of us.
To Learn more about Captcha, follow this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha
Don't ever think blind people don't watch videos. They do.
Videos have voices, such as the voice of people,
music, discussions on the election, etc.
It must be very hard to watch a video with much of visual contents but they sure do enjoy it fully just like us.
So, give them the same chance on commenting on videos as you to the rest - Implement audible Captcha. And oh yes,
Add a link next to the description part that says, "Click To Hear Video The Description"
For those who can see a little bit, copy paste any video description, paste it to
http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
and try.
PEACE !!
:) Ruben
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