Netflix: Court rules that the ADA applies to web-only businesses!
The Decree is a model for the streaming entertainment industry.”ĭREDF is honored to have worked with Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson P.C., and the Boston, MA law firm Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C. “We’re so pleased that Netflix worked jointly with plaintiffs to devise a reasonable and workable way to achieve 100% captioning. “ DREDF hopes that this is the beginning of opening the Internet for our country’s 48 million deaf and hard of hearing individuals in streamed entertainment, education, government benefits, and more,” said Arlene Mayerson, DREDF’s Directing Attorney. The case is already notable for establishing that the ADA applies to on line only businesses, a critical issue as society moves from Main Street to the Internet. Today’s precedent-setting Consent Decree will increase access for people who are deaf and hard of hearing to movies and television streamed on the Internet, one of the fastest growing entertainment venues in the country. Netflix, Ensuring 100% Closed Captions in Netflix’s On–Demand Streaming Content Within Two Years OctoDREDF Secures Historic Settlement in National Association of the Deaf, et al.
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