The Philadelphia government could have budgeted for ADA compliance and it chose not to, just as Berkeley could have budgeted for captioning. Budgets reflect our priorities. It is clear from both examples that meeting the needs of people with disabilities is not a priority.
Expecting them to accommodate everyone for loss-making global educational philanthropy is a ridiculous overreach. It has made the world poorer and entrenched the disadvantage of everyone not in the US. Thanks, disability advocates.
But also, "really cheap" is only cheap when something is done for profit. When it's done as a charitable side gig then pretty much any expense is expensive.
“Hey intern/grad student, enjoy your new assignment”
They are a government land-grant public institution that is supposed to provide services equitably to their citizens. They shouldn’t be pinching pennies to enrich their administrators. They should be held accountable for following the law and their obligations in the work they are required to do. If anyone should be setting an example for equity, or at the least following its own damn laws, it should be our government itself.
You presume wrong. No college professor will waste the amount of time required to fully write out everything they will say in class in advance. Notes, yes. Detailed notes, not unlikely. Full script to be read verbatim, nope.
Also we had to fix a lot of typos in the blackboard of the talk. I remember a "one plus zero is zero" that I had to fix. The hard part is finding a "one" that comes after a word that ends with an "s" because otherwise it sounds horrible.