Comment by kochb
17 hours ago
Yes, the audio speed can be adjusted.
Whether that control you see visually is actually accessible to a blind user is a different matter entirely. Further, it maxes out at 2x, but a blind person would typically screen read at the equivalent of 3-6x.
Huh, 2x is low even sometimes for sighted people.
Related, it seems like YouTube recently paywalled speed increase beyond 2x. Another way in which it's not cheap to lose sight, I guess.
> Another way in which it's not cheap to lose sight, I guess.
True.
We can frame it even more strongly: "default societal practices actively discriminate against people with disabilities; they intentionally, consciously choose to make life harder for people who're disadvantaged".
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> Another way in which it's not cheap to lose sight, I guess.
Seems like it would be a win-win to have a user setting to opt out of video in exchange for ungating that feature.