M$ showed it’s committment to accessiblity today by including a video on the homepage of their new “Decision Engine” with their newish technology Silverlight.
With no Captions.
http://www.decisionengine.com/
Boo. Hiss.
I used their fancy new facebook url “http://www.facebook.com/Bing” to let them know what I thought.
CaptionsOn
I left a comment on Bing’s FB page.. and they responded to me with this:
Hi Jeannette — Unlike a TV network, Bing doesn’t host video content. We crawl the Web to find videos on sites created by others. Thus, if a video doesn’t have closed captions, Bing Video Search cannot provide them.
Henry Hall
Product Manager, Bing Video Search
http://decisionengine.com – Silverlight video on the home page with no captions.
and http://www.discoverbing.com/behindbing/videos.aspx