https://groups.drupal.org/node/534682

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bit.ly/A11yTalksJan2019

Google Slides, Skype, and Microsoft recently rolled out with automatic captioning of video presentations. Catharine McNally happened upon the "Closed Captioning" icon just minutes before a company-wide meeting at Phase2 Technology. Raising her hand for her colleagues to 'turn on' the button, and what followed was a riveting display of speed and accuracy of dialogue across speakers in multiple rooms between Washington, DC, Portland, Oregon, and New York City. Everyone was truly excited about the captioning and the possibilities that may follow: transcriptions for notes, more equal access, and ability to search for captions for bits of meeting notes. Best part was it was 'ready' out of the box for users of Google Slides and compatible for display within the Zoom and/or BlueJeans platform. Since then, reports of similarly positive experiences have cropped up for 
live-captioning for Skype and Microsoft products.

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Assigned: volkswagenchick » Unassigned
Status: Active » Fixed
Issue tags: +Accessibility

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Issue tags: -a11y

Accessibility is the preferred tag. We're trying to avoid the a11y tag because (a) lots of people don't understand the numeronym, and (b) so the maintainers don't have to monitor two tag queues.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.