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MonstrousReprobate

Speaking of disabled players, anyone else getting really frustrated at the Chesscom youtube channel's lack of real captioning?

I just spent time combing through the new April Fool's video painstakingly transcribing it as best I could because it's full of parts I couldn't easily understand (and some I still can't make out even after much effort at 0.5x speed), and somehow my comments keep getting auto-deleted (which I'm sure is automated and not deliberate, but it's still seriously pissing me off) and I'm just really frustrated right now that even when a community member tries to make up for a task that Chesscom should have been doing themselves already, it goes nowhere.

(Not shading Anish at all, btw -- his speaking is quite clear, especially for someone for whom English isn't their first language, it ain't about that. But some sections have lots of background noise and the whole video is full of reverb, which makes it downright impossible for me to understand some parts ... and I just have mild auditory integration issues. Plenty of deaf/HoH people enjoy chess. I'm getting really fed up with the brand's lackadaisical neglect of captions. Given the amount of work that goes into their video production already, it would be a trivial difference to just add real captions too.)

Anyway, for anyone like me who couldn't follow most of today's video, here's my transcription attempt that keeps getting deleted from the comments there: (Edit: they finally added real captions and mine was full of "??????" substitutions for unclear words so I'm just deleting it in favor of the real ones now lol)

MonstrousReprobate

YAAAAAAAAAAY they added real captions! Still zero excuse for it to not be taken care of by the time of upload like every other responsible large brand with high production values, but I'm glad they got it together eventually, even if I had to spend half an hour combing through at 0.5x speed myself first

MXpetrichor

Should I create a a chess.com group for ND/Disabled chess players?

flyon20
I have 80hd
Colourful_pawm

I have cerebral plasy which is caused by a brain injury I am almost 90 percent disabled

I can't walk completely disabled( legs)

My hands are also affected but they are compared to my legs

My right is completely blind and my left vision is -3.0

I may adhd but have not diagnosed

Honchkrowabcd

im stupid and i play chess does that count

Colourful_pawm
Honchkrowabcd wrote:

im stupid and i play chess does that count

😂😂😂

Colourful_pawm

Maybe 🤔🤔 lol

aneeq99

Hello. I want to know about accomodations available for physically disabled chess players during otb tournaments. Can someone guide me on that please