Settlement Reached In Deaf Group’s Website Accessibility Suit Against Harvard

Mealey's (November 12, 2019, 1:17 PM EST) -- SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — In a Nov. 8 electronic order, a Massachusetts federal magistrate judge reported that a deaf civil rights group and Harvard University have successfully settled putative class claims over the purported inaccessibility of the university’s website to the hearing-impaired (National Association of the Deaf, et al. v. Harvard University, et al., No. 3:15-cv-30023, National Association of the Deaf, et al. v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, No. 3:15-cv-30024, D. Mass.)....