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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by sp332 on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:14PM (#9040696)
Yeah, that could have been clearer. Deaf people are 100% as deserving of this content as non-deaf people. They should not be treated as a separate group. Captions are a required part of the distribution, not an optional add-on. There is not "the real message" and then "the message for deaf people".
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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by ars on Thursday February 12, 2015 @06:10PM (#9041973)
So would you rather they don't distribute it at all, if they can't (or won't) caption it? (Not a rhetorical question, I'm actually asking you.)

Keep in mind that these are recordings of a professor talking - there is no script, no captions exist already.

The choice is paying for captioning, or not releasing at all.

If they are unwilling to pay, which should, in your opinion, they pick: Not release, or release without captions?

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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by justcommenting on Thursday February 12, 2015 @08:23PM (#9042365)
this is a false choice; no one would credibly make that sort of claim about audio-only courses in podcast form or video recordings without audio. you're focusing on the economics, and that's fine, but the court is focusing on whether it complies with the law.
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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by hga on Thursday February 12, 2015 @08:46PM (#9042438)
In their vicious PR http://nad.org/news/2015/2/nad-sues-harvard-and-mit-discrimi... they specifically call out a particular Harvard podcast.
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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by loco5niner on Friday February 13, 2015 @02:04PM (#9046402)
No, it is not a false choice.
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