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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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