Across Reddit, frequently buried inside the comments section, you’ll find fancy descriptions of image posts and videos, social networks screenshots and memes.
In one post on the subreddit r/hmmm, a user remarks with a description of an image of a guy with a slicing board connected to his back (” Connected to the cutting board with zip ties are a piece of meat, one piece of sausage, one loaf of bread, a knife, disposable cups, and a glass bottle of transparent liquid.”).
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In r/CasualUK, another person comments with a description of someone’s attempt at a soft boiled egg (” There are 8 strips of pale buttered toast artfully arranged around the eggs”). In r/DnDGreentext, one user spends hours transcribing 82,000 characters of text from screenshots of a Dungeons and Dragons roleplay game.
Listed Below each of these comments are the words “I’m a human volunteer material transcriber for Reddit and you might be too.”
These volunteers are from a little subreddit called r/TranscribersOfReddit, who willingly type out exceptionally detailed descriptions of numerous content so that visually impaired people can access it. The band of honorable souls have the objective of making Reddit, and the internet as a whole, a more accessible location. If you travel to one of r/TranscribersOfReddit’s 72 partner subreddits, like r/thatHappened or r/me _ irl, there’s a chance you might come across one of the group’s sophisticated transcriptions.
” It’s always really good to offer for Transcribers of Reddit, due to the fact that while it’s simple for me to do, it helps a great deal of individuals,” says Jake, a 17- year-old student from the United States, who is among the subreddit’s earliest transcribers. “I’ve transcribed several videos in the r/Blind community. They take a little bit of time, but in the end it’s always nothing however positive replies.”
Back in 2017, Jake made a 900- word description of a YouTube video published to r/Blind, describing extremely complicated video footage of a tactile optical illusion, just so aesthetically impaired people could understand it. “This video truly did require the description. So, thanks so much,” a Reddit user stated in reply.
Considering that the subreddit introduced three years ago, r/TranscribersOfReddit’s 3,186 volunteer transcribers have finished practically 100,000 transcriptions and descriptions of material across the website. Volunteers hail from all 9
