Disability Groups Say California Bar Reforms Don’t Go Far Enough

The State Bar of California’s proposed reforms to improve accommodations for disabled test takers have drawn sharp criticism from disability rights groups that say the measures don’t go far enough.

About 50 disability and civil rights groups, and individuals, submitted comments to the bar by its July 31 cut-off date, which were subsquently made publicly available.

Advocates for the disabled said the amended procedures if implemented would make it more difficult, time intensive, and costly to obtain testing accommodations and be a step backward for disability access and inclusion.

The state bar is revising several rules and processes for handling ...