[blindLaw] Current or recent law school experience

[Nikki Singh]

Hi! I just used JAWS once I had the textbooks converted to Word and/or PDF
files! I note that some law school professors, from either disorganization
or a misplaced sense of proprietorship over the syllabus, cannot or will
not share a book list in advance of the course to permit timely conversion
into an accessible format. It is objectionable, but it will happen, and you
need to handle it. In that case, try to reach out and become friends with
the staff of your law school library. I often had the library tie me over
the first five chapters till the disability office had time to finish its
work. I made sure that when I graduated, I gave that one particular staff
member a nice present for all her diligence and work over the years!



Also, for class, nobody is reading or scrolling through the case. First of
all, the textbooks rarely print the full case, especially Supreme Court
cases whose opinion lengths have ballooned recently. Second, it is not a
good use of time to read the case during an active discussion. You should
prepare a case brief and be ready to engage in the classroom. Many sighted
folks highlight—often to kindergarten level of coloring book fervor—but
drafting your own case brief will be fine.



Sincerely,

Nikki

On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 9:18 AM Christine B via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> I did utilize Kurzweil 3000 but I believe my school needed lead time for
> that and our professors weren’t giving book lists far enough in advance, so
> that was putting undue stress on students with vision disabilities. I
> finally gave up on that assist as a result.
>
> I graduated in 2021, and thinking back now about trying to navigate law
> school and the bar and the MPRE with a vision disability and all the
> roadblocks and hurdles I encountered from the Deans at the school (UIC
> Law), NCBE and Pierson Vue, gives me great anxiety and sadness. It’s
> honestly a miracle I am a licensed attorney today given all those who tried
> to make it impossible for me.
>
> For anyone experiencing similar roadblocks with the NCBE and Pierson Vue,
> the US Department of Justice is conducting an investigation. Please contact
> Justin.page2 at usdoj.gov if you have been unfairly treated regarding
> disability accommodations for the bar and/or the MPRE. Please spread the
> word also.
>
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> On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 10:21 PM omar duncan via BlindLaw <
> blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi based on current or previous law  school experience
> >
> > When it comes to reading and scrolling through loads and loads of dense
> > reading on cases that you have discussions about in class, what  is the
> > fastest text to speech method to go
> > About that?
> >
> >
> > Is kurzweil 1000 or 3000 or open book used by you all.
> >
> > Or using jaws or zoomtext  and uploading the reading material on FS
> reader
> > to be read through daisy files?
> >
> >
> > Or do you guys load the reading and books on a pdf software like Adobe
> or
> > some other reading system provided by these visually impaired softwares
> to
> > read and have it be read to you?
> >
> > Or do you all use a combination of some vision with text speech AS A
> > COMBINATION like text to speech with a CCTV?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
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