For me personally, I would prefer transcripts and written summaries of any audio or video content. I find it very difficult to listen to and learn from hearing audio when sitting at a computer, and having text or a transcript to read from instead helps a lot. It allows me to read at my own pace and go back and forth when I need to.
I’d also like any audio and video content to be easily and separately downloadable, so I could listen to it at my own convenience. And I’d want any slides or demonstrations to be easily printable, so I could see it on paper and write notes on it. (As you can probably tell, I’m more of a verbal and visual learner.)
By the way, your comment seemed totally normal to me, and I didn’t notice any unusual tone, but I’m curious what you were referring to.
Seconded the need for transcriptions. This is also a matter of disability access, which is frequently neglected in website design—better to have it there from the beginning than wait for someone to sue.
We’re already keeping disability access in mind. SecondLife and OpenSim are generally very good with accessibility for everyone but visually impaired folks, for whom they’re unfortunately very hard to make accessible.
By the way, your comment seemed totally normal to me, and I didn’t notice any unusual tone, but I’m curious what you were referring to.
Having the disclaimer seems to help me write more coherently, for whatever reason; compare the above post to this one for an example. There are still noticeable (to me) differences, though—my vocabulary is odd in a way that only anger or this kind of problem evokes (more unusual or overly specific words, fewer generalizations or ‘fuzzy’ ways of putting things), and I’m having trouble adding sub-points into the flow (hence the unusual number of parentheticals) and connecting main points together in the normal way. I know there’s a more correct way of putting that ‘grades 4-8’ point in there than just tacking it on at the end.
That’s interesting. I distinctly remember reading your comment, leaving the computer, going about my business, and thinking that the idea that a deficiency could being selected for was an interesting point.
(But yes, while I understood your comment just fine, I do notice some awkwardness, for example, in the second sentence, easily fixed by just deleting the phrase “it’s acting on”.)
I definitely stand by the point; my ability to think logically is only mildly impaired, if at all. I generally expect myself to be able to communicate such things in a way that gets a less annoyed response than I did, though, or at least to be able to predict when I’m going to get such a response.
For me personally, I would prefer transcripts and written summaries of any audio or video content. I find it very difficult to listen to and learn from hearing audio when sitting at a computer, and having text or a transcript to read from instead helps a lot. It allows me to read at my own pace and go back and forth when I need to.
I’d also like any audio and video content to be easily and separately downloadable, so I could listen to it at my own convenience. And I’d want any slides or demonstrations to be easily printable, so I could see it on paper and write notes on it. (As you can probably tell, I’m more of a verbal and visual learner.)
By the way, your comment seemed totally normal to me, and I didn’t notice any unusual tone, but I’m curious what you were referring to.
Seconded the need for transcriptions. This is also a matter of disability access, which is frequently neglected in website design—better to have it there from the beginning than wait for someone to sue.
We’re already keeping disability access in mind. SecondLife and OpenSim are generally very good with accessibility for everyone but visually impaired folks, for whom they’re unfortunately very hard to make accessible.
Having the disclaimer seems to help me write more coherently, for whatever reason; compare the above post to this one for an example. There are still noticeable (to me) differences, though—my vocabulary is odd in a way that only anger or this kind of problem evokes (more unusual or overly specific words, fewer generalizations or ‘fuzzy’ ways of putting things), and I’m having trouble adding sub-points into the flow (hence the unusual number of parentheticals) and connecting main points together in the normal way. I know there’s a more correct way of putting that ‘grades 4-8’ point in there than just tacking it on at the end.
That’s interesting. I distinctly remember reading your comment, leaving the computer, going about my business, and thinking that the idea that a deficiency could being selected for was an interesting point.
(But yes, while I understood your comment just fine, I do notice some awkwardness, for example, in the second sentence, easily fixed by just deleting the phrase “it’s acting on”.)
I definitely stand by the point; my ability to think logically is only mildly impaired, if at all. I generally expect myself to be able to communicate such things in a way that gets a less annoyed response than I did, though, or at least to be able to predict when I’m going to get such a response.