As a legally blind person I have a few things I would like to say on this topic:
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- I personally find that videos with distracting music to be very difficult to follow.
- I understand that people can be shy and don't want to speak, but if the actions taking place in the videos aren't being described and/or explain, it makes it nearly impossible for me to follow what is going on.
- Mouse movement is hard to follow as well without some kind of highlight
- Videos can be incredibly useful compared to text sometimes because they allow you to show what should be happening at the same time as talking about it. It gives both a visual canvas and an audio track that can both complement and support one another. This is not possible with just text and picture as those 2 things are static.
- Interesingly enough, I find it more difficult to follow a standard powerpoint presentation if it's presented as YouTube video as I feel that we are often used to a certain level of editing in more mainstream educational videos (no timeto waste on silences and millions of "hmmm" "well..." "soooo....." etc.)
- I find that technical tutorial videos work best when accompanied with a written article because different medium are useful in different situation. (if I don't remember a specific command, I might not want to search through a video for example, but if it's a difficult topic, having someone verbally explain a concept might be easier to follow for me.
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