After declining to comment on the lawsuit in an email, Jeff Neal, a spokesperson for the University, wrote in an email that Harvard expects the U.S. Department of Justice to issue proposed rules in June for accessibility to virtual education and provide “much needed guidance in this area.” The University will “fully comply” with these rules, he wrote.

—Staff writer Hannah Smati contributed to the reporting of this story.

—Staff writer Tyler S. B. Olkowski can be reached at tyler.olkowski@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @OlkowskiTyler.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

CORRECTION: March 1, 2015

An earlier version of this article incorrectly miscontextualized a quote from Haben Girma. In fact, Girma refered to the National Association of the Deaf's legal action against Harvard and MIT, not the National Disability Authority's.