Re: Draft issue on saving transcripts

Hi - we chatted about this a bit during the WAI CC call today. I'll give 
a couple days for people to review on list, and will file the issue 
Wednesday if there are no objections. Michael

On 2023-02-20 9:25 a.m., Michael Cooper wrote:
>
> 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.
>