She tweeted Thursday that she was disappointed with YouTube’s decision: Deaf YouTuber Rikki Poynter said on her channel in May that community captions were an “accessibility tool that not only allowed deaf and hard of hearing people to watch videos with captions, but allowed creators that could not afford to financially invest in captions.” “You can still use your own captions, automatic captions and third-party tools and services,” YouTube said in an update on its help page.īut deaf and hard-of-hearing creators say removing the community captions feature will stifle accessibility, and they want to see the company try to fix the issues with volunteer-created captions, rather than doing away with them entirely. It says it’s removing the captions and will “focus on other creator tools.” The feature will be removed as of September 28th.
YouTube plans to discontinue its community captions feature, which allowed viewers to add subtitles to videos, because it was “rarely used and had problems with spam/abuse,” the company announced.
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