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UC Berkeley was too cheap to pay for basic transcription. Again, the ADA is _not new_ -- they knew it when making the videos! Did you read the case? It looks l
by nimish 7y ago
UC Berkeley was too cheap to pay for basic transcription. Again, the ADA is _not new_ -- they knew it when making the videos!
Did you read the case? It looks like the university created content that was not accessible but claimed they had followed the law! No wonder they got sued. They were repeatedly and flagrantly _not even following their own compliance guidelines_! For 50000 hours, at $60/hr, that's $3MM...a fraction of what the DoJ investigation would cost them in legal fees alone. And that's retail rates for humans. I'm sure a smart Berkeley grad student could write up a DL model to transcribe at > 90% accuracy.
They are a public institution and using deaf/hard of hearing people's tax dollars without giving them equal access is unconscionable. Not to mention, having a transcript/subtitle benefits everyone (like closed captions in places where you can't blare audio...)
- emiliobumachar 7y agoAuto-transcription was in place before the suit, which cherry-picked bot failures.