[neivin]

Americans with Disabilities Act.

UC Berkeley was hit with a lawsuit saying that their videos were inaccessible because they had no subtitles. So they're just taking them all down to avoid it.

Some people just don't want others to have nice things.

[nickpsecurity]

The stuff costs money, too. Money that might have gone on other things even more important. Just one class of disability combined with sidewalks might cost LA over a billion dollars:

http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/04/01/50727/l-a-to-pay-1-4-bil...

[Tushon]

>Some people just don't want others to have nice things.

I don't know you or your situation, but it's easy to think that while not really being how this works. ADA lawsuits are filed for a variety of reasons and at least some are intended solely to be the stick that gets a company to do the right thing for a group of people who have protection under the law. Often, these lawsuits are accompanied by timelines for implementation that are pretty reasonable (months or longer). I can't speak to this particular one, but that was an experience at my company. Some companies/organizations choose to provide the benefit in one way or another, and others choose to behave in the manner of UC-Berkeley (and, presumably, they know why they are choosing to take down videos instead of captioning). It isn't fair to single out people w/ that empty platitude. Sucks that the content is being taken down, but I bet UC-Berkeley had a choice.