[blindLaw] Compiling and filing pleadings: request for inputs

Sat Dec 9 20:37:24 UTC 2023

Cody Bear is a CPA I think.
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> On Dec 9, 2023, at 1:33 PM, Justin Harford via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the second message, but by the way if any of you happen to know a blind person who has walked the path of the CPA, it would be great to know who they are. I actually happen to know one blind person in Portland who did an internship with KPMG, and he won't tell me about it. Quite unsettling.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Justin Harford
> Oregon Bell Academy Coordinator
> 
> 
>> On Dec 9, 2023, at 10:31 AM, Justin Harford <blindstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> In my case, it's not a law internship, but an accounting internship. So lots of preparing tax returns for corporations and dispensing tax advice.
>> 
>> I don't really know the answers to your questions. I've told them how it might be easier for me to drive the company car then to manipulate PDF files, and they seem to think that most of the documents that they work with could come in another format like Excel, and that PVF is in many cases just a preference that could be different.
>> 
>> I have a lot of ideas for how I could read PDF files, but it is the issue of annotations that has me stumped.
>> 
>> There are some interesting python libraries that would allow you to add annotations to PDF files if you know the coordinates of where you want to place them. If you think about the PDF page as the second quadrant of an XY axis, and that each inch is worth 72 points period I think there are likely tools that would also allow me to export annotations from a PDF, but I think that part of the challenge with that would be identifying what the annotation was next to. Part of the information in an annotation is where it is located, and that might get lost.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> 
>> Justin Harford
>> Oregon Bell Academy Coordinator
>> 
>> 
>>>> On Dec 9, 2023, at 7:34 AM, J Johnston via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Justin and Caleb,
>>> 
>>> Tax law sounds especially challenging because of all the hard copy documentation.  Is this accurate, or do you get mostly electronic documents readable by JAWS/NVDA?
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the clarification.
>>> 
>>> Jay
>>> 
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>>> From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Caleb E. Smith via BlindLaw
>>> Sent: Friday, December 1, 2023 8:27 AM
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>>> Cc: Caleb E. Smith <ces2266 at columbia.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Compiling and filing pleadings: request for inputs
>>> 
>>> Hi. I’m not actually good with this either. But I have more wanted to just hear about your situation. I’m a first year or I guess now a second year tax associate at a firm in New York. Were you getting an internship at the tax department of law firm? And they don’t have any secretaries to help?
>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 10:06 AM Justin Harford via BlindLaw < blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Very good question. While I am familiar with how the first couple of
>>>> your points would be done, I actually have no idea how editing PDFs
>>>> and redacting would be possible, and I am about to lose a tax
>>>> internship because of it.
>>>> 
>>>> Sincerely
>>>> Justin
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>> 
>>>>> On Dec 1, 2023, at 3:39 AM, Rahul Bajaj via BlindLaw <
>>>> blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Hi All,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have to use Adobe Acrobat Pro for producing my work products but
>>>>> am unable to access many of its features. I would like to know if
>>>>> this is
>>>> due
>>>>> to any flaws on my part or accessibility barriers that exist on the
>>>>> platform. If the latter, how do we resolve this issue? I had to use
>>>> Acrobat
>>>>> Pro today for performing the following functions:
>>>>> 1. Compiling multiple documents into a single consolidated PDF; 2.
>>>>> Bookmarking the documents; 3. Redacting some text from the document;
>>>>> and 4. Editing some text in the PDF documents.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please let me know if you have any solutions for me.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Warmly,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Rahul
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
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>>>>> Rahul Bajaj
>>>>> Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018), University of Oxford
>>>>> Co-Founder, Mission Accessibility
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>>> Hi I’m not good at that either. I’m in my first year as a tax associate at a firm in New York.
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