American Airlines refused to provide reasonable accommodations to a blind employee and then fired her, according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The commission is charged with investigating complaints of discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion national origin, disability, age or genetic information, its website says.

American, which operates its central hub at DFW International Airport, failed to provide screen reader software to the reservations representative after she developed cortical blindness, vision impairment brought on by damage to the processing areas of the brain, the commission said in a statement.

The employee requested the software to convert text and other information into synthesized speech, which would have allowed her

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