4 ms·
UC Berkeley used to for a lot of computer science classes. But a lawsuit necessitated that they close caption all of their publicly available streams. Rather th
by aripickar 8y ago
UC Berkeley used to for a lot of computer science classes. But a lawsuit necessitated that they close caption all of their publicly available streams. Rather than pay money to get professional closed captions, they made streams private.
- Scoundreller 8y agoPrivate or... “private” ?
- sgillen 8y agoThat's a real shame, a (presumably) well intentioned attempt to increase access to educational resources winds up restricting access instead. I wonder what the motivations and intended outcome of the lawsuit was.
- flyingfences 8y agoIt was a group of deaf people trying to get UCB to spend the money to better serve them.
- acct1771 8y agoFor free...so instead dicked everyone else who otherwise would have received for free.
- ausbah 8y agoBecause that constitutes discrimination against the deaf...
- shooter_mcgavin 8y agoDoes that apply to free services?
- sosilkj 8y agoI assume the motivation was to compel UC Berkeley to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.