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Magistrate denies motion to dismiss in cases against Harvard and MIT on web content captioning
Author(s) -
Charmatz Marc
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
disability compliance for higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-8001
pISSN - 1086-1335
DOI - 10.1002/dhe.30174
Subject(s) - magistrate , closed captioning , action (physics) , cause of action , library science , law , political science , sociology , computer science , artificial intelligence , plaintiff , physics , quantum mechanics , image (mathematics)
A United States magistrate issued a report and recommendation which denied Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's motion to dismiss a class action under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. 794, and Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. 12181 et seq., for failure to provide equal access for deaf and hard of hearing individuals to the audio and audiovisual content that defendants made available online to the general public by not providing captioning. (For a summary of the complaints in National Association of the Deaf et al. v. Harvard University and President and Fellows of Harvard College, Civil Action No. 3:15‐cv‐30023‐MGM (D. Mass.); and National Association of the Deaf et al. v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Civil Action No. 3:15‐cv‐300024‐MGM (D.Mass.) see the July 2015 issue.)