Machine transcriptions are obviously better than they used to be. But requiring perfect human transcriptions in this day and age would IMO be unreasonable for most purposes.

Certainly machine transcriptions are used these days for purposes that most intelligent people would judge to be perfectly reasonable.

This was free content. The end result is that the content was made inaccessible to everyone, adding zero benefit to people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

The perfect being the enemy of good.

It sounds almost like you're saying that quality information shouldn't be accessible to anyone if it's not accessible to everyone?

That would be an unreasonably high standard and would set an incentive to withhold. Which is exactly the outcome we got here?

Wouldn't it be better to cheer the improved accessiblity? Then acknowledge shortcomings and ask for community contributions to improve things?

Why must perfect be the enemy of good?

So if 4% of the population cannot partake, then the other 96% should be barred from participating?

ok Handicapper General

So the rest of the world should have the access removed out of some delusion of fairness?

This is exactly why we can't have nice things in this brand new world... there's always a guardian of ethics, of what's right and what's supposed to be done so as not to upset absolutely anyone...