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Reminder for anyone who hosts a captioned webinar - make sure that the captions are working BEFORE the event starts, so attendees who rely on captions are not left out of the beginning of the event.
On a related note, if you're a panelist and you're seeing that CC aren't up yet, offer to pause your remarks until they are enabled. This is solidarity with disabled event attendees.
Watching a recording of a webinar, captioned after the fact, just isn't the same . Can't put my finger on it, but it's not the same feeling as watching a live event. Not just because you miss the Q&A. It feels like missing community, even if everyone's calling in remotely.
Have now sat through half of a webinar, last update was "captions will be up shortly" 12 minutes ago. I'm tempted to stick around just to see if they ever show up. Definitely saw some interesting slides go by without supporting text.
At 12:47 it was determined captions could not be worked out. In retrospect, my frustration lies mostly with the fact that they were not worked out BEFORE the webinar. That's the key point here. Tech check should include captions. The end.
