Updated 9:39 p.m.

A Walmart store in Washington discriminated against two deaf workers, keeping them from important workplace communication and denying access to translators or comprehensive note-taking for meetings, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday.

The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, accused Walmart management of failing to accommodate two workers, Troy Miles and Tonya Bland, who communicate primarily through sign language. Miles and Bland worked at a Walmart Supercenter location in northwest Washington.