[blindLaw] Doing a page read with a client: request for inputs

[Angie Matney]

Rahul, this is my prior response:

Hello Rahul,

My preference is not to share my own screen. I have sometimes asked
the client to share a screen. Then, either the client or I will read a
bit of each item as we advance to make sure we are in sync. "i will
also sometimes ask an associate or paralegal to screen share and "tee
up" each item. I know it is not always possible to have another person
on a call, but I find that when I can do this, it helps me concentrate
more on the substance of the discussion. Of course, each situation is
different. I think your approach would work also—it is just not how I
have aproached this.

Best,

Angie

On 10/16/22, Rahul Bajaj via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I seem to have inadvertnetly deleted the responses to my original post.
> COuld Angie and the other person who responded please reiterate their
> answers? I think Angie said that she does not prefer screen share, but I
> forget the rest of her response.
>
> What would be the best course of action for me to lead a meeting where I
> have to go over a document with a client, line by line, in a virtual
> meeting? Thanks.
>
> Rahul
>
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2022 at 10:31, Rahul Bajaj <rahul.bajaj1038 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Good morning from India. I work at a boutique intellectual property and
>> civil litigation firm called Ira Law as an attorney. I recently
>> encountered
>> the following difficulty. I was asked to take the lead on a meeting with a
>> client. The subject matter of the discussion was a questionnaire by a
>> government body to which we had submitted our responses on behalf of our
>> client. We were going to do a page read- a line by line analysis of the
>> document with the client, to ensure that we were ad idem on everything.
>> One
>> of my colleagues suggested projecting the document by using the screen
>> share feature on her computer so that it would be on everyone’s screen. We
>> were using Google meet. The meeting was virtual. I realize that, despite
>> agreeing to this process, it was not an accessible approach for me. This
>> was because I could not see what everyone else was seeing on the screen
>> and
>> hence could not be  in sync with what they were reading. So I only gave a
>> broad outline of our comments to the questionnaire and then left it to my
>> colleague to lead a line by line discussion.
>>
>> I am wondering how I can avoid this result in future. What would be an
>> accessible way for me to take the lead on meetings of this nature? Should
>> I
>> offer to share the screen myself?  That would not be particularly easy,
>> but
>> I would at least be able to have control over what everyone is reading and
>> can let the client know at the outset that because of my blindness there
>> may be a slight lag in my ability to read with my screen reader what is in
>> the document. I think this would be the best solution. Let me know if you
>> have any other ideas. Thank you.
>>
>> Warmly,
>> Rahul
>>
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>
>
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> Rahul Bajaj
> Attorney, Ira Law
> Senior Associate Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
> Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018), University of Oxford
> Co-Founder, Mission Accessibility
> Special Correspondent on the rights of persons with disabilities, Oxford
> Human Rights Hub
> Coordinator of the working group on accessibility, e-Committee, Supreme
> Court of India
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