During his time as president, Veditz and other members of the NAD used the new film technology to capture individuals signing so that their language would never be lost.

Although African-Americans were not permitted to be members until later, starting in the early 20th century, the NAD advocated for vocational training for the "Colored Deaf" population.

Most recently, the NAD has advocated for professional sports stadiums to provide captioning for the referees calls and for announcers' comments.

Hotels are now required to provide "deaf-friendly" alarm clocks and smoke detectors because of the NAD's persistence in the matter.

The NAD fights for the right of deaf individuals to be able to use American Sign Language and to be provided an interpreter.

[10] In 2014, NAD filed a complaint with the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division alleging that thousands of lectures and other course content that had been made freely available via YouTube and iTunes by the University of California, Berkeley violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 because numerous lectures in the university's Massive open online course program featured automatically generated captions, which contained inaccuracies.