Settlement Of Deaf Group’s ADA Suit Over MIT’s Website Preliminarily Approved

Mealey's (April 1, 2020, 12:58 PM EDT) -- SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A Massachusetts federal magistrate judge on March 27 granted preliminary approval to an agreement between the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that would settle NAD’s class claims over website inaccessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in exchange for the institute’s commitment to proactively provide captioning for video and audio content posted on its website (National Association of the Deaf, et al. v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, No. 3:15-cv-30024, D. Mass., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53643)....