Dear List: Are there any tax programs where you can electronically file both the federal and state taxes which are fully accessible to screen readers? Here is my experience for this year: I filled out the fillable forms on the federal irs.gov website. They are very well done. It took me a lot of time to fill out the schedules I needed with their accompanying worksheets. However, with the instructions and tax tables, Adobe Reader tends to shuffle the information, making it tedious to wade through. If you want to fill out the taxes electronically, a link makes you leave the irs site and you have to build an account. Here, the buttons are unlabeled, so I gave up on it. My wife, who is sighted, continued the process, and after everything was entered, she submitted the federal for electronic filing. The system would not accept it and it would not say what it did not like about it. So, we printed off the forms and mailed them off. Concerning the state (Wisconsin), the edit boxes were completely inaccessible to Adobe reader. If an accessible tax program can be found to electronically file both federal and state, it would have several advantages: It would handle all the forms, schedules and worksheets for you, it would cut down on research time (do I qualify for this or that), and would save a lot of time. Of course, the option is there to go to an agency to have it do it for you. So, if you know of a good program that does both state and federal well, please let me know. Thanks. Regards: Ted Larson If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it.
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