[blindlaw] ADA and Discovery

Sun Apr 4 16:44:02 UTC 2010

Hi folks,

This might not answer any questions directly, and may not be relevant
to handwritten documents, but hopefully the presentation lives up to
its title, so here it is:
AFB Consulting and Adobe Present Free Podcast: Debunking the Myth of
PDF Inaccessibility
http://bit.ly/c42uGw

Note: Google does not allow users to send messages in HTML, so
you may need to copy and paste the above link into your browser.

Regards,

Derek Wilson
Email: career.practitioner at gmail.com
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On 4/4/10, RJ Sandefur <joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Ramsey" <joramsey at cox.net>
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 8:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] ADA and Discovery
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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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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of ckrugman at sbcglobal.net
>> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 4:10 AM
>> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] ADA and Discovery
>>
>>
>> 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
>> 1237 P Street
>> Fresno ca 93721
>> 559-266-9237
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Ramsey" <joramsey at cox.net>
>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 12:34 PM
>> Subject: [blindlaw] ADA and Discovery
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Phone: (352) 505-6642
>>>
>>> Fax: (352) 240-6453
>>>
>>>
>>> This communication contains information that may be confidential
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