Probably not, because the ADA criterion are actually reasonable, and long handwritten essays handily fail it. Basically, don't test for something which isn't a

Probably not, because the ADA criterion are actually reasonable, and long handwritten essays handily fail it. Basically, don't test for something which isn't a job criterion and excludes people based on ability. An absurd example would be asking programmers to lift a 20kg sack of flour onto their shoulder and carry it across a room: this is a legal and normal thing to ask if the job involves lifting things, do it for a desk job and you'll get sued eventually. Whiteboarding is an actual part of the job at many companies, I just let them know that words will probably be illegible and muddle through it. No software job calls for handwritten pages of text, it clearly discriminates on ability and it shouldn't be a part of hiring. Simple as.