For accessibility reasons, I support everything having a text version. (Text can be read by screenreaders, audio can not be automatically converted to a non-audio version with any reliability. Hand-transcribing text is tedious as fuck, so it's not always possible, but if the transcript already exists, it should be made available!) I'm not hearing impaired, but my comprehension (both speed and quality) is so much better with text than audio that I generally don't bother with something that doesn't have a text version unless I already know it will work for me (be it podfic, TV shows... I've even started asking for transcripts of museum audio tours and things like that when I can. I do listen to audiobooks, podcasts and podfic but only under specific conditions so I choose carefully.)
And yes, I do get annoyed when I'm well aware that there's a more-accessible version out there that people are deliberately withholding because they think they know better than me how I should experience something. (*this is spillover annoyance over general lack of transcripts, not at podficcers specifically.) I can only imagine how much more annoyed are people with actual hearing impairments, or major cognitive processing difficulties, which means they can't handle audio at all (of which I know there are many in fandom because I know many in fandom. Some of them have put in huge amounts of effort making amateur transcripts of canon available so people like them can participate fully. So someone deliberately making it harder to access transcripts that already exist? Why yes. I judge.)
And what about the people who don't have broadband or are using public or shared computers they can't download media files onto? Not the right sort of audience for some folks, clearly.
...Um. I think that covers your questions 2, 3, and 4. I am still thinking about the others.
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And yes, I do get annoyed when I'm well aware that there's a more-accessible version out there that people are deliberately withholding because they think they know better than me how I should experience something. (*this is spillover annoyance over general lack of transcripts, not at podficcers specifically.) I can only imagine how much more annoyed are people with actual hearing impairments, or major cognitive processing difficulties, which means they can't handle audio at all (of which I know there are many in fandom because I know many in fandom. Some of them have put in huge amounts of effort making amateur transcripts of canon available so people like them can participate fully. So someone deliberately making it harder to access transcripts that already exist? Why yes. I judge.)
And what about the people who don't have broadband or are using public or shared computers they can't download media files onto? Not the right sort of audience for some folks, clearly.
...Um. I think that covers your questions 2, 3, and 4. I am still thinking about the others.