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The NAD Won't Go After Streaming Captions

In 2011, the National Association of the Deaf sued Netflix in a Massachusetts court. The judge agreed that the ADA applies to Netflix and issued a consent decree. In 2015, the NAD sued Harvard and MIT for not providing captions for their online courses. Most recently, it sued SiriusXM for not providing transcripts on their podcasts.

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