One year ago, the country’s largest organization of blind people filed a federal complaint charging that blind students and professors suffer “pervasive and ongoing discrimination” at Pennsylvania State University because of the widely inaccessible nature of technology used on the campus. That thunderous attack ended with a whimper today. The National Federation of the Blind and Penn State released a statement saying the dispute has been resolved with “no admission of any wrongdoing.” Their news release doesn’t elaborate much. Penn State stresses its long history of providing assistive technologies to blind students, an effort it plans to continue. The advocacy group emphasizes Penn State’s agreement to take some vaguely described “additional steps” to deal with this issue.
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