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Exactly, you're not allowed to take public money (largely tax money from everyone) and use it to benefit a specific group. The laws were clear before Berkeley made the videos, so they should have been able to estimate the cost ahead of time. Instead they ignored they law and decided that discriminating against hearing-impaired people whose tax money helped pay for the videos was fine.

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These videos already existed and are still being produced, and if you live in CA your tax dollars are being used to produce them whether or not they're made public. They're being created for Berkeley students first, made ADA-accessible as needed by the student body. Since they already exist, wouldn't Berkeley be doing a disservice to many disabled people by just keeping them private? And, because its a public school, couldn't one argue that the videos should be publicly available too?

Because taking money from disabled people and using it to help mostly not-disabled people creates second-class citizens. These videos in their current form are discriminatory.

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