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by Tushon 3387 days ago
>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.