Accessibility Litigation
... Source: Wanau-elearning Some of you may be interested in reading about recent litigation involving a student with a learning disability, a US university involved in online education (Capella), and claims that their learning management system (WebCT) is not accessible. The best summary ...
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What the Chronicle article doesn't mention is LaMarca's harassing behavior in the Capella courserooms, which led to his expulsion. I
The OCR ruled multiple times that Capella provided reasonable accomodation to LaMarca, so he has filed a lawsuit. (In fact, LaMarca earned "A's" in the courses he was provided accomodation in).
LaMarca also has a series of websites (Google "Capella Sucks") which do not go into any details of why he could not navigate WebCT.Instead, LaMarca makes fun of recovering alcoholics (note: the American Medical Assocaition classifys alcoholism as a disability), ridicules Mormons, makes light of Nazi Atrocities ("Anne Frank Dutch Ovens"), and fills his pages with slanderous remarks.
Posted by: Capella Rocks | January 4, 2006 04:06 PM
Wow! It looks like Capella Rocks (a.k.a. Shawn Ambrose) has just been hired by Capella University. Take a look at
http://www.capellalawsuit.info/mt/2006/01/capella_university_hires_shawn.html
The guy must be a real sicko!
Posted by: Why Would Anyone Go to Capella? | January 5, 2006 11:05 PM