Netflix and deaf-rights group settle suit over video captions
Netflix and the National Association for the Deaf (NAD) have come to an agreement about captions for the company’s streaming videos: 100 percent must be captioned by 2014.
The agreement comes by way of a class action lawsuit filed by NAD in 2010 that alleged the streaming service was “failing to provide adequate closed captioning on ‘Watch Instantly’ streaming video programming,” and therefore was in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
After back-and-forth between the lawyers — and Netflix working to get the case thrown out — the two sides finally settled this week.
“We…
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