<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Scobleizer]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://scobleizer.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Robert Scoble]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://scobleizer.blog/author/scobleizer/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Will videoblogs be outlawed because of California&#8217;s accessibility&nbsp;laws?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/071014/p1#a071014p1">I&#8217;m watching this case where Target is in trouble</a> with California&#8217;s accessibility laws. I&#8217;m wondering when they will come after the videoblogging industry. Go to YouTube. If you&#8217;re deaf isn&#8217;t that entire site inaccessible?</p>
<p>Now, imagine a world where every video is forced to get a transcript so that it&#8217;s accessible to deaf people? Yeah, some sites like mine would just pay to have transcripts done. But most video bloggers can&#8217;t afford that. So who would pay for this?</p>
<p>I couldn&#8217;t afford to do it for my Kyte.tv channel, for instance. So if there was a law that said that all videos needed to have transcripts so they were accessible I&#8217;d be forced to stop doing video.</p>
<p>I guess if such a law were enforced then we&#8217;d need a technology solution that would automatically add transcripts to our videos.</p>
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