CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Advocates for the deaf sued Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday, saying the universities failed to provide closed captioning for online courses, podcasts and other educational programs.
The National Association for the Deaf filed class action lawsuits in federal court, saying Harvard and MIT discriminated against the hearing impaired and violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Christine Griffin, executive director of the Disability Law Center in Boston, said she hoped that would be the case.
“Our hope is that this lawsuit will change not only Harvard’s and MIT’s practices but set an example for other universities to follow,” Griffin told The Boston Globe.
