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Re: NAD v. Netflix: "This is a bad ruling. Really terrible."

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Jun 30, 2012 10:03AM

> Costs range from $4-$6 a
> minute (per Glenda Sims and other wise folks).

Actually Elle, there is a company who is covered by a GSA contract
that has lower prices than that.

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Ryan E. Benson


On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Elle < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> For what it's worth, captioning is not a very expensive process, especially
> compared to other accessibility initiatives. Costs range from $4-$6 a
> minute (per Glenda Sims and other wise folks).  Of course, even if it were
> $500 a minute, I'd still argue that it's a requirement on the basis of
> civil rights alone.  What will be costly are lawsuits for companies who
> disregard people with disabilities in their digitial production process.
>
>
> Respectfully,
> Elle
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>  I am glad you said all this. The one thing that bothers me about the
>> constant saying it costs too much! Is if more people did it would not.
>> Supply and demand. That's the economics here. And hay what is the problem
>> with putting more people to work? Just think of all the work in captioning
>> the archives of the library of congress . If they really want to make jobs
>> then start making access a priority smile
>>
>>
>> Lucia Greco
>> Web Access Analyst
>> IST-Campus Technology Services
>> University of California, Berkeley
>> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
>>
>>
>>