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Accessibility and Magic Online streaming:
There's a lot we can do as a collective to improve the streaming experiences for all audiences when streaming MTGO.
First and foremost, when providing commentary while playing, we can use https://www.pubnub.com/developers/twitch-tv-obs-subtitles/ to generate subtitles
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There's a lot we can do as a collective to improve the streaming experiences for all audiences when streaming MTGO.
First and foremost, when providing commentary while playing, we can use https://www.pubnub.com/developers/twitch-tv-obs-subtitles/ to generate subtitles
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I'll try to extend this and create a browser extension that can translate these subtitles to the user browser's native language over the next few weeks
We can also use "Card View" on MTGO as many people recognize card art on MTGO vs card text, which helps with localization 2/x
We can also use "Card View" on MTGO as many people recognize card art on MTGO vs card text, which helps with localization 2/x
While doing commentary, we can refer to players or opponents as they/them instead of "he/she" in order to be as inclusive as possible. This change in our vocabulary goes a long way in inclusivity within our community.
Lastly, text to speech within Magic Articles
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Lastly, text to speech within Magic Articles
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Text to speech within Magic Articles essentially creates a long form video or podcast form for reading-impaired persons. @ChannelFireball did a great job with this for some of their articles, but this is a tool available to any website producing magic content. Many services 4/x
Exist that allow for extending/adding text-to-speech capabilities with minimal efforts for writers, such as https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/
I'll be working on incorporating all of these elements within http://MinMaxBlog.com 's future rewrite
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I'll be working on incorporating all of these elements within http://MinMaxBlog.com 's future rewrite
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I implore everyone who produces magic content to work on some of these elements within their own bandwidth if they can, or if they need help working out some of these things themselves, please feel free to reach out and I can help as much as I can.
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I'm also looking for other 6/x
Ways to work on accessible content creation, and I'm hoping those who read this can help me improve upon such elements myself. Thank you for taking the time to read this thread and I hope someone out there has an improved content consumption experience because of this advice
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