Deaf Organization Settles Website ADA Accessibility Suit With MIT

Mealey's (February 19, 2020, 11:28 AM EST) -- SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — On the heels of its settlement of a website accessibility suit with Harvard University in December, National Association of the Deaf (NAD) on Feb. 18 moved for preliminary approval in Massachusetts federal court of a similar consent decree in a parallel Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuit against Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under which the school agrees to various procedures to provide captioning for new and existing online content (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.)....