[olliej]

FEE is a fairly biased and bigoted organization, but their argument /sounds/ plausible.

It /sounds/ stupid that you should have to remove, or not publish, content just because deaf people can't read it. But the alternative is for the law to say that the ADA does not apply to deaf people. That is the /only/ way to stop this having to be pulled down.

If that exception is made then there is no longer any reason for any government organization to support deaf or hard of hearing (UCB is huge, so the cost argument that applies here, also applies to any other government organization).

Among other things, that means that the public education system would no longer need to support deaf children.

The ADA exists specifically because before the ADA existed schools did exactly that, as did universities, etc