why closed captioning should always be provided on every video:
- Deaf People Exist
- auditory processing disorder is a Bitch
- people with ADHD can find it hard to concentrate on what is being said without the words in front of them
- ^autistic people for the same reason
- autistic people may also find it hard to interpret verbal messages within the context of the video, so it’s useful to have written alternatives to fall back on
- do you know how painful it is to be excluded from every joke, every video, every conversation because others just Can’t Be Bothered?
- some people live in a conservative household or with family who don’t share the same ideals, and they may not have privacy to view things on their own, so they may need to watch things with the volume extremely low or muted
- We Want To Watch Videos In Public, Dammit
feel free to add on!
as always, ableism will get you blocked (: