Seattle will take several steps to make the hi - tech used in its schools accessible to blind students , faculty , and parents , in the settlement of a lawsuit brought against the district by dean Noel ##ey and her co - plaintiff , the National Federation of the Blind . the last week , the landmark agreement came after Nightingale , a blind student of three deaf students , filed a lawsuit in 2014 because she did not have equal access to computers on the district 's websites and a mathematics program .
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.