[blindlaw] VITA Publications by the IRS

[kelby carlson]

Emily,

Thanks. i enjoy the subject of tax quite a bit, but I'm not sure how
much of it I want to do in the future considering its accessibility
challenges, and the fact that other areas of the law in may respects
don't have them so much.

On 1/29/17, Emily Pennington via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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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>> carlson via BlindLaw
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>> Subject: [blindlaw] VITA Publications by the IRS
>>
>> 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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