[drewbug01]

> That sounds positive. In contrast, a similar situation at Berkeley had a disastrous outcome -- all Berkeley's historical non-captioned videos of lectures were taken down.

It's worth re-iterating that it didn't have to happen this way: Berkeley could have captioned the videos; but there's no indication that they seriously considered this option. In fact, I cannot find any indication that Berkeley tried to find any sort of compromise with the DOJ - despite the letter from the DOJ strongly urging Berkeley to work with the department towards a solution.

The DOJ letter is also worth a read, in that they find the management of UC Berkeley did not seriously attempt to enforce any sort of compliance with accessibility standards.

It would have been expensive, sure. But it's wise to keep in mind that the UC system operates with a yearly budget exceeding nine billion dollars - and as much as we want to worry about the cost of transcribing those old courses, at the end of the day it is a drop in the bucket of their overall expenditures.