Hi Dave, Me too. However, neither Abby Finereader nor Kurzweil does well enough preserving the formatting with sufficient accuracy that I would trust that I am obtaining from a 1099 a dollar amount from the correct line specified by Turbo Tax. This is why I was curious to know how Aaron or anyone else who is blind is able to do their own taxes. For this reason, I always use a reader with Turbo Tax, but it would be great to be able to do ones own taxes without having to share rather personal information with a third party. Best, Dennis
----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Carlson To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 1:54 PM Subject: Re: Question about JAWS and Taxes Only way I know is an OCR program. Dave Carlson Sent from my iPhone On Feb 2, 2016, at 11:09, Dennis Clark <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Aaron, When doing your own taxes, how do you handle printed forms sent to you for taxes. Each year we receive a number of 1099 forms, and as I recall, Turbo tax will ask for example, "enter the dollar amounts from lines 10, 14 and 20. I've been puzzled what I could do to use TurboTax without a reader, because I don't know in advance which of the many dollar amounts on such forms will be requested. Your advice and experience would be very appreciated. All the best, Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: Page, Aaron To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 10:26 AM Subject: Re: Question about JAWS and Taxes I have been able to complete and file my personal income taxes using the browser-based version of TurboTax for several years now. Some years I have found it to be less accessible than others, but this year I didn’t encounter any problems using JAWS/Firefox. https://turbotax.intuit.com/ Regards, Aaron M. Page, B.S. EIT Accessibility Specialist Accessible Technology Services, University of Montana Phone: (406) 243-2082 E-mail: [email protected] From: Walker, Michael E [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 10:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Question about JAWS and Taxes Hi, What have you found to be the most accessible program for filing income taxes with JAWS? Thank you, Mike
