Deaf Organization Defends ADA Lawsuit Over Harvard’s Website

Mealey's (September 21, 2018, 11:06 AM EDT) -- SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — In an August 29 brief filed in Massachusetts federal court, a deaf advocacy organization opposes a motion for judgment on the pleadings by Harvard University, arguing that it sufficiently alleged claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act for the university’s purported failure to make all areas of its website equally accessible to the hearing impaired (National Association of the Deaf, et al. v. Harvard University, et al., No. 3:15-cv-30023, D. Mass.; and National Association of the Deaf, et al. v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, No. 3:15-cv-30024, D. Mass.)....