Earlier this year, Provost Martin Schmidt announced the settlement of a lawsuit against MIT brought by the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) over the accessibility of MIT online audio and video content to persons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. A working group made up of staff from across MIT has now officially launched a new captioning and accessibility website, which includes tools and guidance for the community about how to make existing and future media posted on MIT public web pages and third-party sites compliant with the settlement, which…
