Harvard Agrees To Provide Website Captioning In Deaf Group’s Accessibility Lawsuit

Mealey's (December 3, 2019, 10:37 AM EST) -- SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — In a Nov. 27 motion to certify a settlement class and for preliminary approval of a settlement with Harvard University, the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) tells a Massachusetts federal court that the university has agreed to provide prospective and on-demand captioning for online content that had prompted the present lawsuit alleging that Harvard’s website was not equally accessible to hearing-impaired people (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.)....