> Accents, even heavy ones, aren't much of a problem.

I strongly disagree. I stopped watching Chrome DevTools update videos a few years back because I have difficulty understanding the presenter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOodTLAjPsE

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triceratops 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Sounds fine to me. Not even in the top 10 heaviest accents I've heard in my career.

	▲	bakje 6 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If English isn’t your first language it can be very hard to understand someone if they have an accent you’re not used to.
	▲	baxuz 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's not in my top 10 either, but I don't have examples of those. I can understand her if I'm try hard, but I think that listening to a speaker shouldn't require active effort in order to understand them.

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socalgal2 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is this a problem solved by current or near current tech? Like (1) you can read the transcript or captions (2) you can get it respoken by some tech?

I guess I'm used to those accents though.

I wouldn't have brought this up but I recently ran into an auto translated youtube video. I have my youtube set to Japanese. I watched a presentation I know was in English but Youtube presented it with Japanese voices. I didn't actually want that and couldn't find how to turn it off but I was still impressed. So maybe that can add dialets so you can choose California English and someone else can choose Singlish and someone else can choose Scotish English, etc...

	▲	jen20 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t know which accent this is referring to, but if I was going to read the transcript I’d rather it was just a post which had also been edited.

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agos 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

that's a really tough accent. luckily the video has excellent subtitles, which reminds us that accessibility is important for everyone, not only for the impaired