As a person with hearing issues, subtitles are appreciated. HOWEVER! Games with settings that make the subtitles better, are better. I'm all for individual noise sliders and stuff to help, but I've never been happier with Helldivers II. The reason for this is obviously the sound settings but there's a subtitle setting that shows the words at the bottom of the screen, and if you're on the ship and one of the people talk to you IT ALSO SHOWS ABOVE THEIR HEAD! Like floating, and transparent, and easy on the eyes! I know who's talking to me, I know if it's coming from the TV or not. It's the best subtitles thing I've ever seen and I need more. If there's more games like this pls let me know.
“alt text for more info” “turn on cations for more info” no actually this is not where more info goes. These have a very distinct purpose. There are plenty of other places for more info. If you’re going to make your post inaccessible, the least you could do is not use accessibility tools at your own leisure for whatever purpose you see fit.
was thinking about this earlier, i think it's fuckin stupid that speech to text software, subtitles, etc censor curse words by default. disabled people are not children, we can handle curse words of all fuckin things
and while we're at it, aac software should include curse words, again many aac users are not children and deserve the same options for communicating as speaking people do
Do you know anything about why the subtitles for Good Omens 2 were so poorly done/inaccurate?
I don't know. Probably I won't know, at least as long as I'm on strike.
This probably happened because I'm on strike. On S1 I checked the closed captions that the BBC made and I checked the scripts that went out to foreign countries to be dubbed or subbed. For S2, Amazon did that stuff directly, and I was on strike and unable to do a final check and correct it.
Having said that, whoever does the captions is meant to refer to the scripts, so I don't understand why they were so off. I feel guilty, because it shouldn't have happened: it's not fair on the hard of hearing or anyone relying on the closed captions for aid. Nobody relying on the closed captions knows about Mrs Sandwich's hatpin, for example, or knows that Shax brought Crowley's mail to the bookshop, or that the first Doctor Who Annual was cover-dated 1966.