[blindLaw] Anxiety about misconstruing content due to accessibility barriers

[Paul Harpur]

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Associate Professor Paul Harpur
BBus (HRm), LLB (Hons) LLM, PhD, solicitor of the High Court of Australia (non-practicing)
Academic Fellow, Harvard Law School Project on Disability
International Distinguished Fellow, Burton Blatt Institute, SU, New York
Fulbright Future Scholar
Associate Professor, The University of Queensland Law School




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I struggle with them.  The only solution I have found is when the document is unclear after ocr, having sighted assistance to look at the part that is unclear.  An AIRA agent is helpful if you do not want to ask a colleague or legal assistant. 

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From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rahul Bajaj via BlindLaw
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Hi, all,

This may be a strange question. However, I findmyself worrying incessantly about having misread or skipped something in legal documents because of an accessibility barrier. Specifically, these feelings become particularly pronounced for me, and my confidence in what I read is not up to the mark,given that:
A. One has to often convert documents into an accessible format using an OCR solution. And the accuracy level of the output sometimes leaves much to be desired; and B. JAWS often jumps around in PDF documents between paras of its own accord, so I end up not being fully confident about what I have read in such documents.

Does anyone else struggle with these thoughts? Do you have in mind any solutions?

Best,
Rahul


 

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