![]() “I thought that eventually, someone who wasn't me would probably have some kind of use for it,” he says. ![]() So, in 2014, he decided to just sit down and type out everything he could find. Kaufeld, a 29-year-old teacher, who was a programmer at the time, explains that he had a “really crappy phone” that couldn’t blow up screenshots of text to a readable size. Joe Kaufeld and James Coe, two guys who met on Reddit by chance after they spotted each other both transcribing Reddit content, started the subreddit because they simply enjoyed typing. The subreddit, however, didn’t initially begin with accessibility in mind. Volunteers hail from all nine continents, including far-flung bases in Antarctica. ![]() Since the subreddit launched three years ago, r/TranscribersOfReddit’s 3,186 volunteer transcribers have completed almost 100,000 transcriptions and descriptions of content across the site. So, thanks so much,” a Reddit user said in reply. “This video really did need the description. Back in 2017, Jake made a 900-word description of a YouTube video posted to r/Blind, describing extremely complicated footage of a tactile optical illusion, just so visually impaired people could understand it.
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