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 the accessibility problems created by audio & video media aren’t just with people lacking/low- in vision or hearing abilities I have the not uncommon combination of #ADHD and #AuditoryProcessingDisorder, which present many challenges with non-text content: 7 comments
 @mattly ooh, that sounds familiar: "audio-only is sometimes worse than video, because I need to occupy my eyes w/ something" I said similar, just last week: can't do podcasts, there's nothing for my eyes to do. Then the ADHD hits and ... squirrel! I have to rewind audio and video A Lot. 😕 @mattly Having to scrub back and re-listen to the same 30 seconds in a video or podcast because it's often much harder with ADHD to parse audio than being able to read it as well - especially since we ADHDers tend to read WAY faster than people speak. @mattly I just can’t process any instructions from videos/audios. The best way to understand any information for me is quality text plus diagrams. Any video longer than thirty seconds I just can’t watch till the end. Like, I have no issues watching a movie in cinema, I get distracted, but get back watching movies/series at home, but other videos - I just drift off and don’t get anything @mattly also searchability, availability offline/away from the office, usability in a datacentre environment (noisy, busy, potentially physically hazardous if some muppet has the floortiles up without warning again). my basic rule of documentation is: @mattly (also, speed-reader. don't make me watch someone read out their pre-written script at the speed of a 5-yo kid taking their class reading turn reluctantly. I will *not* be watching more than 10 seconds, and will live without whatever the answer might have been instead) |
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@mattly@hachyderm.io PDFs are not documentation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A People should really consider whether the media they are using can be used long term. Personally I think that as long as there is documentation in a variety of formats (sometimes I prefer listening to an in depth explanation with audio, sometimes I like a more visual representation but I always want to have text based so I can search for relevant parts) it should be fine. I definitely have had frustrations with trying to understand someone's accent, or the tone they use in their voice sets me on edge making it hard for me to engage with the content.
@mattly@hachyderm.io PDFs are not documentation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A People should really consider whether the media they are using can be used long term. Personally I think that as long as there is documentation in a variety of formats (sometimes I prefer listening to an in depth explanation with audio, sometimes I like a more visual representation but I always want to have text based so I can search for relevant parts) it should be fine. I definitely have had frustrations with trying...