Suit Says Law Admissions Group Can’t See Its Anti-Blind Bias
The National Federation of the Blind and a blind law school applicant sued the Law School Admission Council last week, charging that its Web site, essential to those preparing for the Law School Admission Test, is inaccessible to blind people, effectively blocking them from law school. Web sites can be “tagged” so that blind people can use software to navigate and obtain information, but the suit charges that the law school site lacks this necessary tagging. Joan Van Tol, general counsel for the law school group, told The National Law Journal that she was disappointed that the National Federation for the Blind sued “when we fully expected to address their concerns through productive meetings.”
