Ted, I recommend using TurboTax online for taxes. While there are
improvements that could be made, it is completely usable with a screen
reader.
Here's a bit more info.
http://blindbargains.com/bargains.php?m=5224
J.J. Meddaugh - ATGuys.com
A premier Licensed Code Factory and KNFB Reader distributor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Larson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 3:44 PM
Subject: any tax programs fully accessible to screen readers?
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
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