I don’t know whether ADA is reasonable, but it should not be hard for Berkley to comply. I’ve gone through the process of creating captions to a video. It’s not too terribly difficult. And professional services charge about $1 per minute.
Assuming each of the 20,000 lectures is an hour long, that’s $1.2 million, not a small sum for something that you’re giving away free.
“Assuming each of the 20,000 lectures is an hour long, that’s $1.2 million, not a small sum for something that you’re giving away free.”
I’d do it for half that. :-)
Really, as a society we should not need laws to force us to help those who are disadvantaged in ways such as this.
But conservatives also stand for personal responsibility.
I suggest that they seek volunteers to do the work, and open source it. Or make contributing to the closed captioning process the cost of admission for the “free” access.