<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">When I worked at the Disability Resource Center (DRC) at Cal Poly SLO, one of the tasks was to run scans of books through TTS for students.<div class="">It was hard to deal with technical books, but for general ed classes, it was easy enough. We also had volunteers read and record some non-technical books.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'd imagine they (UC Berkeley) could add closed-captioning of videos to the equivalent department's tasks.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 15, 2017, at 8:19 AM, Paul Zander <<a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" class="">paulz@ieee.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489591000625_4323" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" class="">Unfortunately
instead of constructive discussions too many people shouting and no one
is listening. I am reminded of a lawyer in SF who was going to small
restaurants and businesses. If he found a rest room sign that wasn’t
in the proper size and type font, he would file a law suit. He
justified his actions on wanting to make the world better under ADA.
He also got paid thousands for each suit.
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489591000625_4326" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" class="">Closed captioning.
Virtually all broadcast TV has closed captioning. How difficult /
expensive would it be to add CC to the lectures? Admittedly CC
sometimes is pretty bad with uncommon words.</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489591000625_4329" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" class="">Prof. Smith has been
teaching math for some years by working out examples on the white
board. Now there a blind student enrolls. How is that supposed to
work?</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489591000625_4300" class="qtdSeparateBR"><br class=""><br class=""></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489591000625_4252" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489591000625_4251" style="font-family: lucida console, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489591000625_4250" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489591000625_4249" dir="ltr" class=""> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489591000625_4248" face="Arial" size="2" class=""> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489591000625_4299" size="1" class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight:bold;" class="">From:</span></b> Ruben Safir <<a href="mailto:ruben@mrbrklyn.com" class="">ruben@mrbrklyn.com</a>><br class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" class="">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a> <br class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Sent:</span></b> Monday, March 13, 2017 7:56 PM<br class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Subject:</span></b> [conspire] Contact DOJ and tell them to blow it out their ass<br class=""> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489591000625_4257" class="y_msg_container"><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-08-30-UC-Berkeley-LOF.pdf" target="_blank" class="">https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-08-30-UC-Berkeley-LOF.pdf</a><br class=""><br class="">These bastards are threatening every online resource for education from<br class="">MITs opencourseware, to Berkley and even youtube. This has to end for<br class="">public education to continue.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">conspire mailing list<br class=""><a ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" class="">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br class=""><a href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" target="_blank" class="">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">conspire mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" class="">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br class="">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>