The Scratch Team has a YouTube channel, and on their videos there are no implemented captions! I think this is a problem because I tried watching a Scratch Video Update with the auto-generated captions on and… nothing made sense. This is bad for people with hearing issues because then they can't watch a Scratch Team YouTube video, and I'm just saying that makes the ST a little hypocritical because they're always saying that Scratch is for everyone and they're always promoting projects that people with hearing or sight problems can still experience.

Here are some examples of bad captions on ST videos, bought to you by Maximouse

Maximouse wrote:

To illustrate the problem, here are two examples of YouTube's auto-generated captions from the latest Scratch Video Update:

Video wrote:

love it section

YouTube wrote:

Leavitt section

Video wrote:

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YouTube wrote:

also killer

Captions are so easy to implement on YouTube, so please, add them to your videos, Scratch Team.

Thanks for reading, and remember to Scratch on!

-Red

Supporters:
-Maximouse
-Mr_PenguinAlex
-Eevee Legends
-bigpuppy
-fdreef
-Skywarslord
-Morimop
-Nambaseking01
-ResExsention
-–Explosion–
-kjtv9000new
-Bacteria999
-OurPrincess

Semi-Supporters:
None!

Non-Supporters:
None!

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT

speakvisually wrote:

Thanks for the feedback! We've been good at captioning all of the videos on Scratch website, but need to do a better job on YouTube side of things. We'll get on the case. Thanks again <3

Well, we did it fellow Scratchers. Bad captions on Scratch Videos are no more!

Support, because YouTube's auto-generated captions are terrible.

Maximouse wrote:

Support, because YouTube's auto-generated captions are terrible.

Exactly. Thanks for supporting by the way!

support


because youtube doesn't understand how human beings speak

Mr_PenguinAlex wrote:

support


because youtube doesn't understand how human beings speak

IKR? Thanks for supporting!

Support, this would make the videos accessible for the deaf/hard of hearing.
As a deaf person myself, it's hard to understand Youtube's auto-generated captions sometimes, captions that are accurate would be extremely helpful.

EeveeLegends wrote:

Support, this would make the videos accessible for the deaf/hard of hearing.
As a deaf person myself, it's hard to understand Youtube's auto-generated captions sometimes, captions that are accurate would be extremely helpful.

Thank you for supporting. I'll add a supporters list now

I agree. Accessibility is always important, and in the Community Guidelines, it says "Scratch welcomes people of all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities." So yeah - I think this is a crucial thing to do.

Bump. (I got pushed to the second page )

Support. They could even turn on community transcripts have other people do it for them.

Support. As many others have said it would be very useful. There is no downsides to this and isn't hard to do.

Conditional support.

I'll only approve of this idea if YouTube fails to fix their auto generated captions engine.

Otherwise support anyway.

Support for the reasons above.
As others said, auto-captions are terrible.
This would be very helpful for deaf people.

Support. I actually feel like the Scratch Team needs to be improvise on a lot more stuff it it's “for all people”.

ResExsention wrote:

Conditional support.

I'll only approve of this idea if YouTube fails to fix their auto generated captions engine.

Otherwise support anyway.

So do you want me to put you in the Semi-support list or Support list?

I'll put you in the Support list for now, since the auto-generated captions on YT haven't been fixed yet. Let me know if you want to be moved

ResExsention wrote:

I'll only approve of this idea if YouTube fails to fix their auto generated captions engine.

Ah, so you'll support this forever?

Support! This does not affect me, but scratch is meant for everyone to be able to use it.

fdreerf wrote:

ResExsention wrote:

I'll only approve of this idea if YouTube fails to fix their auto generated captions engine.

Ah, so you'll support this forever?

LOL! Also, bump.

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To illustrate the problem, here are two examples of YouTube's auto-generated captions from the latest Scratch Video Update:

Video wrote:

love it section

YouTube wrote:

Leavitt section

Video wrote:

pixel pillar

YouTube wrote:

also killer