Key Terms of Captioning Settlement With NAD
April 1, 2020
As reported by Provost Martin Schmidt in February 2020, MIT recently settled a lawsuit brought by the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and several deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals relating to the captioning of MIT’s public video and audio content. This settlement was reached after nearly five years of litigation and negotiation with the plaintiffs. This article linked below contains a summary of the key settlement terms.