[blindlaw] Question about relativity-software used to review documents

[Susan Kelly]

Out of curiosity, who would write these scripts?  When our agency (county public defender) insisted on buying an inaccessible file management program, my supervisor and I were assured that the company would work with us post-rollout to make it accessible.  We never heard another word from them on that, nor has the upper management of our office made a move to make the program accessible, likely because of the expense in both money and time that we simply do not have.  I personally have neither the time to do it myself nor the money to pay someone else to do it, so the work-around has been to require my assistant to load anything that I might need from this program (which serves as the official file for a case) into a Word or OCR-d PDF document.  As a further matter, she must do all of the date entry in the program notes section.  Needless to say, it is a frustrating and inefficient way to work.

All things considered, if a program is not inherently accessible, shouldn't we as a group pressure / persuade a change at the creation level?

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tim Elder via blindlaw
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 7:23 AM
To: 'Derek Manners' <dmanners at jd16.law.harvard.edu>; 'Blind Law Mailing List' <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Tim Elder <tim at timeldermusic.com>
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Question about relativity-software used to review documents

FWIW, even if the software is natively inaccessible, the possibility of writing custom JAWS scripts to make it accessible exists.  


-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Manners [mailto:dmanners at jd16.law.harvard.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 1:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Question about relativity-software used to review documents

I've used relativity and while I was not using a screen reader at the time, my hunch is that it might not be accessible. If someone doesn't let you know soon with more direct knowledge, I can also access it and attempt to use jaws with it and let you know the results. 

Best regards
Derek Manners

Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 1, 2015, at 4:02 PM, Marcos Rodrigues via blindlaw
<blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi friends:
> 
> Have someone used the platform/program mentioned on the subject?
> 
> If so, is it accessible with any screen reader?
> 
> Regards.
> Marcos Rodrigues
> mrodrigues81 at hotmail.com
> 
> 
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