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Basically. 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.




Close captions for video are widely available. Try harder.


Widely 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.


uhh, 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?




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