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After offering guarded praise to YouTube in my last post for their auto-captioning feature for English language videos I had the urge over the weekend to test how accurate and timely they really were.
So by uploading a publicly licenced video from the Internet Archive, which demonstrates how to download, print, and make a book, I was able to compare my own captions created using the free caption- and audio-description authoring tool MAGpie with those that YouTube had extracted.

The advent, and subsequent mass adoption, of embedded Flash audio and video content we’ve been exposed to in the last five years or so brings with it many challenges, but none more important than the issue of universal access.