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Hey everyone, my name is Keli. I am a youtuber and certified personal trainer who really wants to help the deaf community.

I am not deaf myself, nor do I have any family members or friends who are but I really want to help.

Currently, I'm not sure what I can do to help or if I'm even needed. I simply notice a lot of youtube video how to's, tutorials etc. telling people how to do things but the deaf community isn't even considered.

There are close captions decoded by a bot who barely understands what the person is saying, therefor translations are poor at best.

I had an idea of taking ASL classes simply to add additional videos to my channel or videos inside of videos where I translate everything in sign language. Or to have a sign language channel where I give great tips using sign language only.

I'm not sure which would be more helpful or if it's even needed but either way I'm very serious and I want to help. So hello ^_^ Please let me know if you suggest I take college courses to learn sign language or if there are online resources just as good if not better (I've found some but I would prefer to know your recommendations)

I would like to attend events to make friends and get to know some of you as well.

Thank you so much for your time and I hope you all will accept me into your community
 
whatdidyousay! said:
http://www.alldeaf.com/showthread.php?t=125774




This thread will give an idea what is needs to be done with youtubes
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Thank you so much! This lets me know I'm on the right track. I've been personally entering CC's for my videos for a few months now. I think it's so much better and a lot more efficient than letting the bots do it.

I will surely take the time out to continue to do so! Thanks
 
Hello-

Adding a transcript (if the video isn't super long) in the description is helpful also. Glad to see someone making the effort to add and/or be sure the captions are not gibberish (aka the auto-captioning). :)

Goes both ways- videos in ASL/sign also ought to provide transcripts/captions for ASL videos for those who are ASL impaired.
 
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