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The suit is not about access for students enrolled in Harvard or MIT college credit courses, they do indeed have accommodations: ASL interpreters, CART service
by extra88 12y ago
The suit is not about access for students enrolled in Harvard or MIT college credit courses, they do indeed have accommodations: ASL interpreters, CART service (a person, similar to a court stenographer, types what's said where the student can read it), digitized text for the vision impaired, etc. Printing Braille is slow and the output cumbersome so providing digital text that can be read by text to speech software or displayed on a refreshable Braille display are much more common.
- hga 12y agoAs a for instance of this, in the very early '80s MIT's EECS department put together its first really big computer lab. In the machine room there was a DECSYSTEM-20/60 (repackaged PDP-10 with a fast ECL KL-10 processor) and later 3 CADR Lisp Machines, across the hall a big open space with terminals for these machines. And in one small room off of that, a station with a keyboard and a Braille hard copy printer, which I remember being used by a blind student. At least in that community, people went to a lot of effort to accommodate the blind and deaf. It was a bit before my time, but there was an ITS etc. wizard (who later was hired to do the TCP/IP stack for ITS) who was deaf, and a lot of the people in my social group learned a sign language to better communicate with him.