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The ADA was passed in 1990. What's Berkeley's excuse here.
by x0x0 10y ago
The ADA was passed in 1990. What's Berkeley's excuse here.
- mulmen 10y agoLack of funding and content that was created before 1990.
- x0x0 10y agofta: legacy content that is 3-10 years old
- mulmen 10y agoThen I guess we are just left with a lack of funding.
- mirimir 10y agoBasically. Or at least, giving stuff away was cool, because it cost very little. But once it becomes expensive, why divert resources from paying students? Some wider implications are very alarming. Consider all of the video content that libraries hold. If it's not ADA-compliant, having it available to the general public is arguably discriminatory.
- x0x0 10y agoClose captions for video are widely available. Try harder.
- unprepare 10y agouhh, we are commenting on a post about a school who had to pull all of their videos because they were sued that the closed captioning was not accurate enough. try harder? did you forget an /s?
- mirimir 10y agoWidely available for what video? For popular stuff, sure. For torrented movies, it's often crowd sourced, and often almost inscrutable. If you mean software for transcribing audio, that was judged not good enough.
- Kadin 10y agoThe content only exists because it's cheap to put online. If you require that someone transcribe it for closed captioning, it is like putting a tax on video uploads. They just won't be uploaded. Barring some public funding to make it possible for institutions to caption videos, which would be the reasonable solution, the demand for captioning vastly raises the barriers towards putting content online.
- DanBC 10y agoPeople said exactly the same about ramps; tactile flooring; high contrast bus interiors; elevators; etc. They could have spread the cost over the 25 years the law has been in place instead of leaving it all until now.
- unprepare 10y agoWhy are Americans with disabilities more important than people from other nations? This is entirely separate from your examples, as people in india arent taking american buses or elevators - but they most certainly are taking advantage of american educational content that is publicly available.
- forgottenpass 10y agoThe content only exists because it's cheap to put online. If you require that someone transcribe it for closed captioning, it is like putting a tax on video uploads. They just won't be uploaded. Because it's prohibitively expensive, or because they can't be arsed? I used to assume the prohibitively expensive angle, but DEF CON has had live closed captioning for 3 or 4 years now, and is done so the recorded material can be used in classrooms with accessibility requirements. If DT can afford it, I have little regard for people who pretend to be committed to educating the masses and still don't bother.
- mirashii 10y agoDEFCON also has a budget of millions of dollars to host a 4 day event, as well as a very loyal and dedicated team of volunteers. What value is there in comparing such a vastly different organization?
- mirimir 10y agoMaybe because the video was created as an archive, or more generally, just not for general instruction. So ADA didn't apply.