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<p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While scheduling accessibility supports for specific performances (ASL, Audio Description, Captioning, ....) can be a way of welcoming the community,
building an audience and being efficient with accessibility resources but it may not meet everyone’s needs or fulfill a venue’s obligation to accommodate. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This decision reinforces the need have
a clear process for patrons to request accommodations beyond scheduled performances and how venues need to consider those requests to determine if they are reasonable. </span></p>
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<div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The court said “<i style="line-height: 1.22em;">Fox’s one-captioned-performance policy denies persons with hearing impairments an equal opportunity
to gain the same benefit as persons without hearing impairments, and that deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals therefore do not have meaningful access to the benefits the Fox provides</i>.”</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> The eighth circuit upheld a district court decision supporting captioning on request at the Fox Theater in St. Louis. While focused on captioning, the decision’s logic
holds true for ASL and Audio description. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">District court decision </span>
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<div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">8th circuit decision </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">L. Scott Lissner, </span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Ohio State University </span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> ADA Coordinator and 504 Compliance Officer <br style="line-height: 1.22em;">
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<div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8" style="line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">April
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<div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Multiple Perspectives Conference </span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><a href="https://ada.osu.edu/multiple-perspectives-conference/20th-annual-conference" style="line-height: 1.22em; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">https://ada.osu.edu/multiple-perspectives-conference/20th-annual-conference</font></a></div>
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