Re: Draft issue on saving transcripts

+1 it is a good idea. And help many users

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023, 12:22 PM Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> ===
>
> @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.
>
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