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YouTube wants you to tell on publishers without closed captions

Digital publishers and their staff are aware that web accessibility laws require them to tag image files so that blind and low-vision users can understand their content using screen readers. But did you know that online videos should display captions, according to the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010? And now YouTube has a way for users to quickly blow the whistle on content owners that don't comply. Original Story

source: GigaOm

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