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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by fps on Thursday February 12, 2015 @01:44PM (#9040490)
On EdX.org, where Harvard and MIT put many online courses for free, all course videos already are professionally captioned and accessible. The cited videos in the lawsuit aren't even course videos, they're promotional videos or streaming versions of conferences. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President Obama and Lady Gaga visiting campus for an event. - see http://creeclaw.org/online-content-lawsuit-harvard-mit/
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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by erok on Thursday February 12, 2015 @04:21PM (#9041463)
This will just change all of it though.
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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by fnordfnordfnord on Thursday February 12, 2015 @04:59PM (#9041639)
Most of these videos are already being captioned. What's needed in large part is just higher quality captions. Nobody is shutting anything down for the mere lack of a better captioning system.
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