[NFB-DB] more on captioning.

[maurice mines]

Good morning, I'm responding to the person who expressed concerns about 
whether Zoom communications has native captioning. They do but it's not 
what we would consider captioning. It's more a transcript instead of 
human provided captioning if this makes sense. I've read what serves as 
captioning directly because it comes out in a transcript that the 
meeting provider chooses this unfortunately you hardly get a real sense 
of what went on in the meeting. So this I have significant problems with 
the default captioning the way the company believes it should be done.


Your comments of course about asking us on the board to take this up 
certainly have been I hope read by him my colleagues on the board I know 
I have read them and I know we have discussed it in the past. I'm going 
to leave it to this list administrator first VP to chime in where she 
thinks it is appropriate. As far as cost go, I think she once told us in 
a recent meeting, that I thought she said roughly hundred dollars. But I 
do not know what time frame she was discussing or at least I can't 
remember what it was exactly. It was a discussion we had leading up to 
the 2020 virtual national convention. Like I mentioned earlier a lot of 
us on the board who read this list and we do tend to take trends to 
heart when we have board only discussions. Please be assured that we 
don't overlook anything.


As I suggested yesterday that may help you if you sit down with your 
state president and or members of your state board and discuss this 
issue within your state affiliate. Because I think that's the best way 
to handle this. Yes we can help, but I think a lot of this must start at 
the state level. I hope this explanation of things helps and I hope your 
Sunday is going along smoothly. Be well everyone and stay safe.

-- 
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