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Re:Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete... by anigbrowl on Friday October 21, 2022 @03:01PM (#33291811)
Near the end: unless this requirement is met, there will be a need to add subtitles to all video clips in all of the courses

This doesn't seem like an onerous requirement to me. There is a variety of both commercial and free tools to automate that process, and while it would involve some effort in proofreading and uploading the subtitle data, that represents at most a few days of labor.

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Re:Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete... by alonmln on Friday October 21, 2022 @03:15PM (#33291969)
Not if the videos are in Hebrew. English and other languages have excellent support and tools that less common languages don't.
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Re:Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete... by warkdarrior on Friday October 21, 2022 @03:36PM (#33292166)
Couldn't you feed the English auto-generated subtitles through Google Translate?
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Re:Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete... by Entinel on Friday October 21, 2022 @03:53PM (#33292358)
Anyone who has tried to do significant translation knows that Google Translate is pretty bad. If you just want to translate a word or even a single sentence, it's fine. But if you want to venture into larger pieces of text(like a script for example) then you couldn't do much worse than Google Translate.
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Re:Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete... by sokoloff on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:34PM (#33292737)
How would you get English subtitles from videos in Hebrew?
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Re:Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete... by anigbrowl on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:57PM (#33292949)
There are definitely options available for Hebrew transcription, and Israel has no shortage of domestic computer talent. Human transcription services run about $150 per hour of program material, which is not a huge expense for a business. It's certainly an inconvenience, but a predictable one for the market they're operating in.
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Re:Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete... by tluyben2 on Saturday October 22, 2022 @12:14AM (#33295619)
Except, OP is not a business; as is read from their post, their content is completely free and they make no money. Then 150 per hour is pretty steep.
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