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I'm sure if they asked the american public, or their students, or youtube, or anyone if they were willing to help transcribe educational videos they would have gotten the help they needed. It sounds more like a petty way for administrators to get back at people who just wanted to be treated equitably.
Assuming that Reason.com presented the facts of this case fairly (a rather generous assumption), rather than framing it as the DOJ forcing Berkeley to take the videos down, I think the fairer way is to say that Berkeley is refusing to make the videos accessible to the hearing impaired. Captioning the videos would be hugely beneficial to all users of the videos, not just those with hearing problems. I am skeptical tha…
This makes no sense. The courses are up on youtube with closed captioning. https://www.youtube.com/user/UCBerkeley I hope someone is downloading these all and putting up a torrent.
https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22UC+Berkele...
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5xqnc6/uc_berk...
Assuming that Reason.com presented the facts of this case fairly (a rather generous assumption), rather than framing it as the DOJ forcing Berkeley to take the videos down, I think the fairer way is to say that Berkeley is refusing to make the videos accessible to the hearing impaired. Captioning the videos would be hugely beneficial to all users of the videos, not just those with hearing problems. I am skeptical tha…
Berkeley will caption any video for their students on request.
The complaint was put forward by two employees of Gallaudet University - not students. Gallaudet University is a private university for the deaf. I would like to point out that their videos are not friendly to those with visual impairments and they should have their videos removed for the same reason UC Berkeley has to remove theirs. Here are a few such examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffqU3mT4k1o https://ww…
I have yet to see the greater hearing community routinely engage in this kind of universal thinking in access; thinking about people in terms of capabilities and designing their messages with as many capabilities in mind as possible given the technology at hand.
An quote from the article can be rewritten:
"Berkeley had two choices: spend a fortune adding closed captioning to the videos, or remove them from public view. Cost-conscious administrators chose the latter option."
or...
"Berkeley had two main choices: spend money and/or spend time making their content accessible to everyone, or backtrack on their commitment by removing from public view. Privileged administrators (who likely do not need the benefit given by making this content accessible) chose to hide the content rather than be responsible stewards for knowledge."
Assuming that Reason.com presented the facts of this case fairly (a rather generous assumption), rather than framing it as the DOJ forcing Berkeley to take the videos down, I think the fairer way is to say that Berkeley is refusing to make the videos accessible to the hearing impaired. Captioning the videos would be hugely beneficial to all users of the videos, not just those with hearing problems. I am skeptical tha…
Berkeley students have accessibility accomodations for each class. I do think understand why all of the US should expect such accomodations. That's not a feasible thing for most universities to do (caption historical catalogue of videos).
Seems like a better course of action would have been to make the videos accessible rather than force them down.