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Resident urges consistent closed captions, timestamps on city videos and warns against expanding mayoral power without management reforms
Summary
A long-time resident told the commission the city should make meeting videos easier to navigate with accurate closed captions, timestamps and speaker labels, and argued a charter change toward a strong-mayor system risks concentrating power without adding city management roles.
A resident and accessibility advocate asked the commission on Aug. 19 to make the city's public-meeting videos easier to use and to require consistent closed captions, timestamps and speaker names to improve transparency and accountability.
"Many of our meeting videos already include closed captions and the effort matters," Deborah Estap said. "This is not a…
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