Harvard and M.I.T. Are Sued Over Lack of Closed Captions
According to this article in the New York Times,
advocates for the deaf file federal lawsuits against Harvard and MIT, saying both universities violated antidiscrimination laws by failing to provide closed captioning in their online lectures, courses, podcasts and other educational materials.
The last standard in the Quality Matters rubric concerns addressing accessibility within your online course. This page from Blackboard details the process of captioning video and how to find video content that is already captioned.
Many of the videos that are available in Atomic Learning are already closed captioned. To access VCU’s Atomic Learning portal, go to http://go.vcu.edu/atomiclearning
Blackboard Learn also has an On Demand Tutorial playlist for students with closed captioned videos that details many of the most commonly used features in the Blackboard LMS.
The Division for Academic Success on the MCV Campus provides disability and academic support services to students in the health science schools. Additional questions regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 can be obtained from this office.
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