[blindlaw] VITA Publications by the IRS

[Emily Pennington]

Hi, Kelby.
My memory on those tests is growing a bit fuzzy now, but I recall them being
a bit challenging. Many of the questions were multiple choice, true/false,
or presented a short textual scenario with choices. However, I recall some
questions having links to accompanying documents (i.e. someone's tax return)
for interpretation. Most of it was readable with a  screenreader, but I
remember it being challenging and taking a while on some of the problems. I
feel like Firefox was the best browser for me.

Sincerely,
Emily

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Emily,

At the moment my issue is with the certification test, since I'm not sure
I'll be able to read the problems. I'm not worried about the actual
preparation since I'll have a reader. Do you recall how you took the test?



On 1/28/17, Emily Pennington via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Dear Kelby,
> I did VITA two years ago, and I have a couple of those publications in 
> Word
> -- namely 4491 and at least part of 4012.
>  However, they are from two years ago, so perhaps they are not 
> relevant anymore. In any event, my dad had to put in a painstaking 
> amount of labor to get them into a readable form. Let me know if you 
> think what I have would be relevant despite the two-year difference, 
> and I would be happy to send them to you off-list. From my experience, 
> I did not wind up needing most of the more graphic stuff in the 
> publications thanks to the site walking me through the preparation 
> process and the easier-to-read textual components of the publications.
>
> Sincerely,
> Emily
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> All,
>
> Another tax question. I'm doing the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance 
> through my school's clinic, and we have several publications that we 
> use in the course of work. While the IRS has a lot of its forms and 
> publications accessible, I can't find any of these: P 4012, 4491, 4491-W,
or 6744.
> Mostly
> the problems are the inaccessibility of the decision trees in the PDFs 
> and the fact that sample forms (such as intake sheets) appear to be 
> embedded in the PDF as images, making it impossible to read. Does 
> anyone know if there are accessible versions of these anywhere?
>
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