[blindlaw] ADA and Discovery

Sun Apr 4 14:12:13 UTC 2010

John, I remember once I had jury duty, and I called three weeks ahead of 
time, and told my circuits disability person that I had jury duty. Unknown 
to me, My mother wrote, "I'm totaly blind please excuse on my jury form." It 
was realy imbarising. Now I'm told I'm incompantant to serve as a jurer do 
to the fact my doctor wrote a note stating I am blind. This happened serval 
years ago. What if anything should I have done at the time? RJ
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From: "John Ramsey" <joramsey at cox.net>
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> That is one of the problems when they scan an image of the original
> handwritten document and do not title the image in a way that a blind
> practitioner is going to have knowledge of that document in a timely 
> manner.
> I think that the overall issue is whether or not the State is required or
> should be required to provide the text documents in an accessible format. 
> I
> am sure the ultimate answer is yes.
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> If you have access to Kurzweil or Open Book software those files can be 
> sent
>
> through those programs and reade. Most likely the files were scanned in to 
> a
>
> PDF document and they are images. The only problem that will occur is if 
> the
>
> documents contain hand-written pages as they will not be recognized by OCR
> software.
> Chuck Krugman, M.S.W., Paralegal
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> Fresno ca 93721
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Ramsey" <joramsey at cox.net>
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> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 12:34 PM
> Subject: [blindlaw] ADA and Discovery
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>
>> Hello All of the Criminal practitioners on the list,
>> I practice criminal law here in Florida and have encountered a
>> problem.
>> When
>> the State and Public Defender's Offices are providing me with documents,
>> they are in a PDF that JAWS reads as blank. As you can imagine the 
>> default
>> titles of the PDF files can basically nullify any real attempts to
>> discover
>> what the document is. My question is: has anyone had to challenge the 
>> form
>> of discovery under the ADA? If so, what was the outcome?
>> Cordially,
>> John
>>
>>
>> John A. Ramsey Jr., P.A.
>>
>> P.O. Box 6063
>>
>> Gainesville, FL 32627
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>> Phone: (352) 505-6642
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