[neltnerb]

There was a court case in recent memory mandating that universities caption any video they publish. It was specifically relying on the ADA.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahkim/2019/11/29/harvard-uni...

"In the United States alone, approximately 50 million people are considered deaf or hard of hearing. The failure to provide appropriate accommodations to this community is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973."

[_djo_]

If you read through the case history, you can see that the ADA does not have specific language saying something like "websites above size x must be accessible, and that means a, b, and c need to be followed." Much of that has been developed into case law and precedent by judges ruling in numerous lawsuits over the years, which is why it's still a somewhat grey area for edge cases.

[iso1337]

And that's why a ton of video lectures from UC Berkeley had to be taken down due to lack of captions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856

The spirit of the law is good, but sometimes it just means that we lose "good enough" in pursuit of "perfect".