Seattle Schools Community Forum

I'm following up on the story about a blind parent who is suing the district over changes to the district's website that does not allow her to access her students' information (and the company who created the website is now being sued by the district, with finger-pointing in both directions). As part of the settlement for recent litigation regarding website accessibility, our website provider agreed to migrate our public website to their latest software by Mar. 1 of this year. This migration only affects the district’s main web pages and the school websites for John Muir Elementary School, Washington Middle School and Garfield High School. In addition, the contract for our current website hosting services was terminated by the vendor and the district is seeking a new service provider. (Those are some pretty random school pages.  It would appear this fix is for the sight-challenged parent's effort to keep up with her students' work but what happens t...

Oh my. It appears that the District and Edline , the company that the district contracted with in/around 2010 to redo the District's website , are having a tussle over who is to blame for the inability for blind parents/students to access information on that website. Further, they are now arguing over whether Edline still has a contract and should still be providing services to the district.