{"id":39350,"date":"2023-06-27T08:18:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T12:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=39350"},"modified":"2023-07-04T09:13:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T13:13:44","slug":"reddit-api-changes-cause-r-transcribersofreddit-to-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/reddit-api-changes-cause-r-transcribersofreddit-to-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit API changes cause r\/TranscribersOfReddit to shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"0\">A group of Reddit volunteers, r\/TranscribersOfReddit, responsible for transcribing material from other subreddits, is ceasing operations on June 30th, owing to changes to the company&#8217;s API.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"1\">According to Rebekah Ginsburg, a Transcribers Of Reddit moderator, the goal was to give some interim fixes for missing accessibility elements on Reddit, such as alt text, while pleading with the corporation to solve such &#8220;inadequacies.&#8221; Ginsburg added that the API changes and the company&#8217;s lack of commitment to accessibility made it &#8220;impossible&#8221; for the team to continue the project.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">Reddit has said it will exempt some third-party accessibility apps from having to pay for API access, but members of the r\/TranscribersOfReddit community say these apps don&#8217;t have the same moderation functions that are needed by blind and visually impaired users.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">Reddit is pressing ahead with its new API policy, despite the backlash from the community. The company has said that it is &#8220;exploring a number of things&#8221; related to accessibility, but it&#8217;s unclear what these changes will entail.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/a-reddit-transcription-community-will-shut-down-over-a-lack-of-trust-in-the-platform-191008889.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Engadget<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Reddit volunteers, r\/TranscribersOfReddit, responsible for transcribing material from other subreddits, is ceasing operations on June 30th, owing to changes to the company&#8217;s API. According to Rebekah Ginsburg, a Transcribers Of Reddit moderator, the goal was to give some interim fixes for missing accessibility elements on Reddit, such as alt text, while pleading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[619],"class_list":["post-39350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-reddit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39352,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39350\/revisions\/39352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}