Draft issue on saving transcripts

Following up on the discussion of saving transcriptions: 
https://www.w3.org/2023/02/13-waicc-minutes#t04

I found the content in the Guide that we would ultimately want updated: 
https://www.w3.org/Guide/meetings/transcripts.html. It mentions some 
reasons not to allow saving that we would need to address. For now, this 
draft issue is meant to open discussion without having the full solution.

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@a11ydoer raised a question that we discussed in the WAI coordination 
call, about the meeting transcript saving policy. The Guide 
<https://www.w3.org/Guide/meetings/transcripts.html> instructs staff to 
disallow transcript saving, for important reasons. But we now have some 
experience with the feature, and in most of my groups it has become 
routine to turn on auto-transcription as an accessibility and language 
support. While transcripts have errors, they are generally 
understandable. Groups have begun to wonder if scribing should be a 
priority, especially given the participation cost to the scribe in a 
given meeting. Therefore, we would like to explore incorporating current 
experience into the transcript saving policy.

I believe many of the concerns we have with saving transcripts could be 
addressed with policy and guidance. I believe it is still inappropriate 
to use automated transcripts as a formal meeting record, but I think it 
is appropriate to allow them to supplement the official record.

There are also social concerns about the use of saved transcripts. While 
we can't know what would happen in an untried experiment, our social 
experience with live captioning has been encouraging. People are used to 
it, and I think the step to saving transcripts is less of a leap than it 
was.

We look forward to discussing an appropriate way to make use of this new 
technology.

Received on Monday, 20 February 2023 14:25:29 UTC