[blindLaw] Shifting to Private Practice and Starting a New Job at K&E

[Abdulrahman Bagais]

Many thanks for your email and kind words, Tai.

Indeed, I've heard the same about JAWS from other VI lawyers in the UK, but since NVDA is the one used by nearly all blind people here in Saudi, I have been using it for a long time, and when decided to try JAWS I haven't find information about how can it work with bilingual English/Arabic voices, and as I am supposed to work in both languages at Kirkland, I requested NVDA because it's the one I know it can work in both languages and switch between them automatically. I will contact JAWS to check if it works in both languages.

Does anyone have an idea whether JAWS can be also used with English/Arabic bilingual voices or not?

Best Regards,
Abdulrahman

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Abdul,
Welcome to the list and congratulations on your new role as an associate for Kirkland & Ellis. Most attorneys who use screen readers are using JAWS for Windows due to its advanced handling of larger documents, arguably more robust feature set, and the variety of voices and languages supported. Its commands are quite similar to those of NVDA. I recommend you give it some consideration. It is something your firm should be able to purchase for you.
Tai


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Subject: [blindLaw] Shifting to Private Practice and Starting a New Job at K&E

Hi everyone,


I hope you are all well!


I am Abdulrahman Bagais, a totally blind legal practitioner from Saudi Arabia. I am very pleased to join the Blind Lawyers and find a community for visually impaired lawyers.


After nearly two years in my role as a legal trainee at Zahid Group, I have started a new role as a trainee associate at Kirkland & Ellis - Riyadh Office a month ago. As you can imagine, shifting to the private practice at a global law firm can be a bit challenging in the outset, there are a couple of systems used at K&E that I did not used to deal with in my previous role, the office is fairly newly established, so it takes some time to set up all the needed software and technologies and can be difficult to get accessible training and orientation.


I am writing generally to check if anyone has been in the same position and can help with any tips/advice, and also to ask about the screen reader that I use (NVDA), is there anyone in the group, by any chance, using/has used Acapela bilingual English/Arabic voices that can be used with NVDA? The IT team struggling to install a good quality version of bilingual English/Arabic version, also I have found it really difficult and not efficient to use the screen reader with large documents even if it's word as it becomes very slow, anyone can help with this issue?


If anyone has been through the same challenges, please feel free to send me a message out of the group to discuss it further and your support will be much appreciated.


Many thanks!


Best Regards,

Abdul
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