Notes

19 February 2021 11:17 UTC

The new Mogwai album is exactly what I needed this morning.

18 February 2021 14:08 UTC

I can’t actually find any information regarding privacy in AccessiBe’s privacy policy. Suspect they might be a route for tracking and should probably be blocked with Better… 🤔

Oh, there it is! (Not in the “privacy policy”, bafflingly.)

“accessiBe tracks… website behaviors (mouse clicks, heat maps, user clicks)”

Having just found proof they neither care about, nor have a proper understanding of, privacy… I’ll be adding them to Better’s blocking rules next week for everyone.

04 February 2021 11:16 UTC

I responded to this issue on GitHub in good faith, but I can’t stop emphasising YOU NEED TO PAY PEOPLE TO DO THE WORK RIGHT. If you want to do better at covering disability and accessibility, pay a disabled consultant to help you.

Relying on “the community” might get you some nice advice from well-meaning people, but be aware that “the community” is limited to those who can afford to/have free time to participate (and I’ll bet those are mostly non-disabled people.)

“We can’t afford to spend money on inclusivity”. Yet you can afford other aspects of design, development, promotion. Even if you’re working for free on an open source project, your time still costs money. You’re just prioritising based on your existing skills and knowledge.

22 January 2021 14:09 UTC

My not being able to sleep means there’s now a transcript and captions up on our latest Small Is Beautiful #4 video.

We go through our streaming setups, how we do it on a budget, including equipment and creating transcripts and captions.

18 January 2021 20:10 UTC

And now we have the captions and transcript up on our site for the Small is Beautiful #3 livestream.

This was a really great discussion, so much fascinating detail on the strategies for introducing more ethical (and easy-to-use!) computers into schools.

18 January 2021 14:53 UTC

Been testing Simon Says for transcripts/captions today and I think I might be in love with a web app that’s going to save me hours and hours.

Simon Says.

Automated transcript has great accuracy as a starting point (including for non-native English speakers!) and combined with the well-designed editing tools, I’m able to edit so much faster. Prices are also affordable for our tiny not-for-profit organisation.

I really really believe that captions and transcripts should be included with videos by default. But blimey, doing hour-long video streams every week has really been testing my commitment to that. Especially when we don’t have money to spend. But I’m determined!

14 January 2021 10:46 UTC

14 January 2021 10:18 UTC

Just added captions and transcripts to both of our Small is Beautiful live stream videos.

Small is Beautiful, episode #1. Small is Beautiful, episode #2.

For this evening’s stream, and future streams, I’m going to try to get the transcript and caption done and up much faster.

Not going to lie, it is hard work and time-consuming creating a transcript/captions for hour-long conversational streams.

If anyone has any feedback on the formatting/readability of either the transcripts or captions, please let me know. As I’m putting all this effort in, I want to make sure they’re as usable and useful as they can be!

I’ve been using Thisten, which is a really affordable starting point, and editing from there. If anyone has any tips on other tools and workflows for producing both transcripts and captions from the same source material, I’d love to hear them.

04 January 2021 13:48 UTC

Apparently my site is one of only five sites reviewed by Terms of Service Didn’t Read that has been given a Privacy Grade A rating. (Because I don’t track anyone.) Strange/cool thing to wake up to on a Monday morning!

LauraKalbag.com on Terms Of Service Didn’t Read.

Reddit thread from Terms Of Service Didn’t Read “Ask Us Anything”.

24 December 2020 09:46 UTC

Missing my family and friends this Christmas so I made a silly Osky card to send them.

Lots of love to everyone, especially those staying away to keep the ones they love safe x