[AnotherUnixGeek]

Two employees of Gallaudet University—a school for the deaf in Washington, D.C.—filed a complaint with DOJ alleging that Berkeley's online content was inaccessible to the hearing-disabled community.

Great, so because the deaf can't hear the lectures, none of us get to hear them anymore. So much for making learning available to as many people as possible. Oh well, it was probably just a matter of time before the stupid filed a complaint because they couldn't understand the lectures and got them pulled.

[P-Marlowe]

Great, so because the deaf can't hear the lectures, none of us get to hear them anymore.

Most deaf students have voice recognition technology on their computers that would allow them to "hear" these lectures. I have it and I ain't even deaf.

This ruling is insane.

[Cicero]

I think we should sue Gallaudet University for refusing to admit hearing-enabled students to their School for the Deaf.

[GnuThere]

Yes, it would be different if these lectures were HARMING deaf people, or if Gallaudet had some agreement to have accessible courses delivered to them.
Having an IQ under 70 is surely a disability, do we just need to shut down all university lectures now because they are over some peoples’ heads?

[Sequoyah101]

Yeah, I know about the blind guy who “climbed” Everest but he ADA is a COS. It is bad and sad that people are disabled but penalizing the rest of us for it accomplishes nothing good.

Stupid since it began. Cost and unused ramps and junk all over the country brought to us at great wast of resources.