UC Berkeley to pull online courses - in order to comply with the ADA

dietz199
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 20:25:11 +0000

So, everyone loses a valuable and informative resource in order to comply with the ADA. Sigh…

http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/09/13/a-statement-on-online-course-content-and-accessibility/

Nevertheless, the Department of Justice has recently asserted that the University is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act because, in its view, not all of the free course and lecture content UC Berkeley makes available on certain online platforms is fully accessible to individuals with hearing, visual or manual disabilities.

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In many cases the requirements proposed by the department would require the university to implement extremely expensive measures to continue to make these resources available to the public for free. We believe that in a time of substantial budget deficits and shrinking state financial support, our first obligation is to use our limited resources to support our enrolled students. Therefore, we must strongly consider the unenviable option of whether to remove content from public access.