[blaqsmith]

I highly suspect the negativity of this article and the comments attached to it are unwarranted. The ADAs goal here (or at least, its original goal) is not to force Netflix to create captions for things that do not have them, but to maintain accessibility for a certain class of entertainment that is already required to be accessible when it's not on the Internet. This means tv shows and movies, things that already have captions offline -- this sort of entertainment should be required to maintain their accessibility when moved online.

If this sort of law is not put in place now, then the deaf will be increasingly pushed out of access to the entertainment for which they have already had to fight pretty hard.

[dfxm12]

but to maintain accessibility for a certain class of entertainment that is already required to be accessible when it's not on the Internet.

This isn't the case. When was the last time you went into a movie theater and watched a movie that had closed captioning? I have a deaf friend and he complains about having to drive great lengths to find a specific theater playing a specific movie with closed captioning.

[protomyth]

I don't think it is unwarranted, because some of us have had friends that were hit by drive-by lawsuits under the ADA in the real world.

So, I upload videos to my site, do I have to close caption them? Do I have to close caption a stream I do from my iPhone? It would seem if my site has ads, it would count as commercial and be subject to these rules.