Official Google Video Blog: Finally, Caption Playback
I don’t really watch much YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe and the likes (much too busy these days), but this is great news still.
Go Google go! :)
Although many of us are responsible for making this possible, it’s particularly meaningful to me because I’m not only an engineer fortunate enough to work on Google Video — I’m also deaf. In some ways this reminds me of when closed-captioning (CC) was first introduced; before that, little on TV made sense and the only movies worth paying for were foreign films, because those were the only ones with subtitles! I now have the same sense of hope that I did then, when you could finally see visible progress and knew for sure that however long it took to perfect things, we really were on the way.
