Blind County Worker Was Reasonably Accommodated, 4th Cir. Says

Montgomery County, Md., fulfilled its legal obligations to a blind employee after the software she needed to do her job became inaccessible following a move to a new call center, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held.

The Nov. 21 decision shows that it’s generally in the best interests of employers to continue to try to accommodate disabled workers’ limitations even after a worker has commenced legal proceedings.

Here, efforts Montgomery County made after a jury found in February 2016 that the county had initially failed to meet its obligations under federal disabilities bias law were enough ...