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I have no idea if your cost assumptions make sense or not so I don't know whether they are pretending. Either way, I have a better idea: no rules. They are rel

I have no idea if your cost assumptions make sense or not so I don't know whether they are pretending. Either way, I have a better idea: no rules. They are releasing high quality content online for free to a large segment of the world's population. Just let them do it! Here's another idea: The people who are so concerned about accessibility could join their efforts and provide a transcription. In multiple languages, by the way. We don't want to exclude anyone.

pmoriarty 10y ago
I guess the same argument could be made in regards to not providing accessibility accommodations to buildings: that there should be "no rules", and if a building is built without accessibility accommodations at least access to such building "is free to a large segment of the world's population. Just let them do it!" It's pretty clear that such arguments lost with the passage of the ADA.
- andrenth 10y ago
  That's a completely different situation. The online classes are an "extra" in the sense that the university's core product are the classroom courses. They're simply being nice for releasing the videos. Furthermore I have never heard of a building being closed until accessibility accommodations are built.
  - Thrillington 10y ago
    So where, exactly and precisely, is the line between "extra" and "normal"? If you think about it critically for just a second you realize there is no line. Accessibility is an absolute in the United States. If you disagree then I wish you the best of luck in your campaign to repeal the ADA.
    - andrenth 10y ago
      Oh my, interventionists are so cliché. Passive-aggressive hyperbole and all. Should they provide transcriptions to satisfy the transcription validation committee, I'm sure you'd be demanding the videos to be taken down because they are not also transcripted in Spanish or dubbed in French, or some other excuse that would prevent the majority of people to have access to the content (including those who could be interested in working on transcriptions instead of complaining online).

pmoriarty 10y ago

I guess the same argument could be made in regards to not providing accessibility accommodations to buildings: that there should be "no rules", and if a building is built without accessibility accommodations at least access to such building "is free to a large segment of the world's population. Just let them do it!" It's pretty clear that such arguments lost with the passage of the ADA.

andrenth 10y ago
That's a completely different situation. The online classes are an "extra" in the sense that the university's core product are the classroom courses. They're simply being nice for releasing the videos. Furthermore I have never heard of a building being closed until accessibility accommodations are built.
- Thrillington 10y ago
  So where, exactly and precisely, is the line between "extra" and "normal"? If you think about it critically for just a second you realize there is no line. Accessibility is an absolute in the United States. If you disagree then I wish you the best of luck in your campaign to repeal the ADA.
  - andrenth 10y ago
    Oh my, interventionists are so cliché. Passive-aggressive hyperbole and all. Should they provide transcriptions to satisfy the transcription validation committee, I'm sure you'd be demanding the videos to be taken down because they are not also transcripted in Spanish or dubbed in French, or some other excuse that would prevent the majority of people to have access to the content (including those who could be interested in working on transcriptions instead of complaining online).