And today I read that:
I don't think this was the intent of the ADA. Not that it matters anymore. Seriously--retrofit 20000 videos so they're suitable for the blind or the deaf? Not remotely feasible. Even the best transcription software still has (last I heard) 5% error rates, and I know no way to turn blackboard sketches of Feynman diagrams into something tactile.
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I'm surprising myself with how outraged I am about this. It's not just UC Berkeley's lectures, either—they were the only university with a court order against them, but in principle this would also apply to any university that makes such things available. The wealth of free educational resources available online is one of the best things to happen in my lifetime, and the plaintiffs in this case may well have destroyed it.
And the Gallaudet students didn't even get a benefit for themselves or for deaf people, in exchange for denying the resource to all others. It seems like just pure malice. $%*#! bookburners.
More fruits of the aggrieved.
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