Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Courses

Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by cl0ber on Thursday February 12, 2015 @05:04PM (#9041671)

This makes no sense. What's wrong with outsourcing something you're not very good at?

I don't speak Hindi, I'll happoly outsource the translation of video to an agency that can do this for me.

Same with sign language, I don't know it. I'll happily outsource to an agency that can do the sign language translation.

Care to explain why you think I should have the skills inhouse to suport multiple types of accessibility when those skills can be hired in via a third party?

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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by sp332 on Thursday February 12, 2015 @05:07PM (#9041686)

Outsource if you like, but at least pay for it. Don't make deaf people pay for something you gave for free to everyone else.

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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by lifeformed on Thursday February 12, 2015 @05:49PM (#9041886)

Should they also have to pay for translation to all languages?

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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by sp332 on Friday February 13, 2015 @09:50AM (#9044558)

All languages in the target society, I guess. If e.g. Harvard doesn't have much presence in Swahili-speaking societies, there's not much damage in not having the video translated to Swahili. But if you are giving an advantage to some members of a society over others, you're treating the others as second-class citizens. They might even feel separated, because they can't participate in something that everyone else has access to.

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