"YouTube's parent company Google has announced on its blog that automatic captions are to begin to roll out across the site."
This is great. The spirit of the Internet (esp. the open source movement, wikipedia) is the progression of knowledge and freedom. This is a step in the direction of universal accessibility. The internet is far ahead of television when it comes to closed captioning. Of course, it was a different time during the advent of television and disability rights didn't exist. The only problem I forsee is the difficulty of putting captions on every video. The article does mention some problems with the voice recognition speech program that will eventually be ironed out. But still, my experience with voice recognition leads me to think it will never be 100% perfect.
Even though problems are on the horizon, this is a step in the right direction.
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