[roberthahn]

With this one weird trick, you can make the web better for up to 20% of your visitors! Let me tell you for free!

    Please caption your videos, or make transcripts available.

Did you get that?

    Please caption your videos, or make transcripts available.

Yes: 20% of people over the age of 12 have some degree of hearing loss[1]. That's 6% more (two IE9 marketshares!) than the total of vision and mobility disabilities. And if you caption, it's easy for you to see if you did it right!

[1] Google "percentage of people with hearing loss" to see multiple sources converging on this number

[Semiapies]

Also helps with search, and it will often save time to let people in general skim a transcript instead of watching a video to see if really covers the subject they need to know about.

[roberthahn]

Precisely. What I'm asking for would benefit a lot more people than the 20% I'm calling out.