{"id":555,"date":"2012-01-13T10:04:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2012-01-13T10:04:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T15:04:46","slug":"assistive-technology-lawsuits-part-3-1122012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"Assistive Technology Lawsuits, Part 3, 1\/12\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistive Technology Lawsuits to Watch<\/p>\n<p>As 2011 has come to a close and 2012 has just begun, TAP would like to\u00a0share some highlights of a\u00a0year that included several important and interesting AT-related lawsuits worth watching. The outcomes of these lawsuits could have a big impact on assistive technology users in the years to come!<\/p>\n<p>August 2011: The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) filed a lawsuit against the internet-based movie rental company Netflix in a Massachusetts District Court. The lawsuit alleged that Netflix violated deaf persons\u2019 rights under the Americans With Disabilities Act by failing to provide closed captioning for most of the streaming video that Netflix makes available on its site.\u00a0More about the lawsuit here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nad.org\/news\/2011\/6\/nad-files-disability-civil-rights-lawsuit-against-netflix\">http:\/\/www.nad.org\/news\/2011\/6\/nad-files-disability-civil-rights-lawsuit-against-netflix<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=555\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistive Technology Lawsuits to Watch As 2011 has come to a close and 2012 has just begun, TAP would like to\u00a0share some highlights of a\u00a0year that included several important and interesting AT-related lawsuits worth watching. The outcomes of these lawsuits could have a big impact on assistive technology users in the years to come! August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}