In the summer of 2015, Katherine Macfarlane was preparing to teach at the University of Idaho’s law school. It was her first teaching job on a tenure track, and she wanted to make sure she had everything she needed. So she submitted a request for a keyboard tray and a few other office items. It wasn’t enough: Her request was denied because the documents were deemed outdated, she recalled. “So I pleaded with a rheumatologist I’d seen in the past and desperately asked for a letter.”

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