Seattle will take several steps to make the ed-tech used in its schools accessible to blind students, faculty, and parents, in the settlement of a lawsuit brought against the district by one Noel Nightingale and her co-plaintiff, the National Federation of the Blind. The agreement calls for the school district, which has been under federal court order since 2012 to improve access to technology at all schools, to provide free computers with Internet access, as well as Braille software that can
Seattle will take several steps to make the ed-tech used in its schools accessible to blind students, faculty, and parents, in the settlement of a lawsuit brought against the district by one Noel Nightingale and her co-plaintiff, the National Federation of the Blind. Signed last week, the landmark agreement comes after Nightingale, a blind mother of three Seattle students, filed a lawsuit in 2014 because she did not have equal access to information on the district's websites and a mathematics program.