November 27, 2019
Harvard University plans to implement a new audio and video captioning policy and pay $1.5 million in attorney fees and costs to the National Association of the Deaf to settle a class action discrimination suit, the parties told a Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday.
February 12, 2015
The National Association of the Deaf on Thursday slapped Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology with putative class actions in Massachusetts federal court, accusing them of discriminating against deaf and hard-of-hearing people by not properly captioning their open online courses and other online content.