[blindLaw] Discrimination

[Shannon]

How did they look differently?

Shannon Brady Geihsler
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> On Sep 24, 2019, at 3:17 PM, Angela Matney via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Laura et al,
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> I have an example of this related to quotes. After I had been practicing law for a few years, a casual comment from my assistant led me to learn that I was sending her documents that inconsistently switched between smart quotes and straight quotes. I learned that Word was automatically creating smart quotes, but I sometimes tended to draft sections in Notepad and then paste them into the document, and the quotes in these sections were straight quotes. My assistant had been quietly fixing this in all my documents for years.
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> You can tell if you are using straight quotes vs smart quotes by having your screen reader announce the ASCII value of the quotation mark. JAWS will call a straight quote “character 34,” and it will call smart quotes “character 8220” (left quote) and “character 8221” (right quote). There might be ways to do this with sound schemes in JAWS—maybe Laura or someone else can speak to this. But in many cases, JAWS does not differentiate between these two types of quotation marks, so it’s very easy to use the wrong ones and not be aware.
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> Angie
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> From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Laura Wolk via BlindLaw
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 3:36 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Discrimination
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> Shannon, would you mind repeating your question? I don't quite
> understand what you are trying to ask.
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> As to the broader conversation, I think what I'm