SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND EDX INC. UNDER THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT

DEFINITIONS

“Bug” means a defect that creates an accessibility barrier for a Participant or Course Creator with a disability resulting from nonconformance of www.edx.org, edX mobile applications, or the Platform with WCAG 2.0 AA. 

“Content Management System” or “CMS” means the components of the edX software platform with which Course Creators interact, including, without limitation, the HTML editor, video upload screens, assessment authoring, and studio.edx.org, and excluding, for purposes of clarity, Course Content.  EdX calls its CMS “Studio.”

“Content Provider” means any non-edX organization or institution that creates and/or provides content on www.edx.org, the Platform, or edX’s mobile applications.

“Course Content” means any information published to www.edx.org, edX’s mobile applications, or the Platform by a Content Provider, including, but not limited to, courses or specific plug-ins or tools related to any course.

“Course Creator” means all users from a particular Content Provider who are responsible for developing Course Content.  For clarity, Course Creators are not edX employees.

“Documentation” means the edX documentation available at docs.edx.org and http://edx.readthedocs.org, which Content Providers use to develop courses.

“edX Website Content Personnel” means edX’s employees, contractors, and consultants, who design, develop, maintain, manage, or otherwise have responsibility for the format of www.edx.org and the Platform and the content owned and controlled by edX on www.edx.org and the Platform.

“Learning Management System” or “LMS” means the components of the edX software platform with which the Participants interact, including interactions with the underlying software, other Participants, and course instructors.  Such platform components include, without limitation, course navigation, the video player and discussion boards, but exclude, for purposes of clarity, Course Content.

“Participant” means a person who registers or attempts to register to take courses on www.edx.org.

“Platform” means the Learning Management System and the Content Management System.

“www.edx.org” means (i) the website which comprises all webpages that start with the URL, https://www.edx.org; and (ii) any subdomain within such URL that edX owns and operates, such as code.edx.org or docs.edx.org, but excluding studio.edx.org.  www.edx.org excludes in all cases Course Content.

Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement, technical terms used in this Agreement have the same meaning as provided in the WCAG 2.0 (Dec. 11, 2008), published by the W3C, available at www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/.